I just went and checked it out today! Although it isn't blatant social change, it doesn't smash in your head like a 2x4 wielding ogre, it does paint a beautiful portrait of the "ideal" american life and or what american life really is. It is from that awareness in ourselves that social change is enacted. So in that sense, Rockwell is an artist for social change. The collection here in Tacoma portrays a lot of his politically sensitive and or crucial work. -
"American Chronicles traces the evolution of Rockwell’s art and iconography from reflections on childhood innocence in No Swimming (1921) through World War II and his powerful depiction of the Four Freedoms (1942), to consciousness-raising images like The Problem We All Live With (1963), which documented the traumatic realities of desegregation in the South." -Tacoma Art Museum.
http://www.tacomaartmuseum.org/Page.aspx?nid=332
I encourage you all to check it out!
-Nev
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