Norman Rockwell’s Granddaughter Blasts Trump Administration For Using Artist’s Paintings | EUROtoday

The granddaughter of Norman Rockwell slammed Donald Trump’s administration for “promoting this segregationist view of America” by means of its use of her grandfather’s iconic work.

“Norman Rockwell was antifa,” Daisy Rockwell defined to The Bulwark, referring to the umbrella time period that’s develop into a right-wing bogeyman of types to consult with left-wing activism.

(Antifa is a decentralized, progressive motion that opposes fascism and racism. Trump designated it as a “domestic terrorist organization” again in September following the assassination of Charlie Kirk.)

Her feedback observe a number of cases the place the Department of Homeland Security used work by her grandfather — who famously depicted the “Four Freedoms” and tackled racism, violence and segregation in his work — to name on individuals to “defend” and “protect our American way of life” amid its mass deportation agenda.

One of Norman Rockwell’s most iconic work depicts Ruby Bridges, the primary Black pupil to attend a whites-only college in Louisiana, being escorted by U.S. marshals as they stroll previous a racist slur written on a wall.

In an op-ed for USA Today final month, Daisy Rockwell and different members of the family harassed that if the artist have been nonetheless alive, he’d be “devastated” to see that the issue Bridges confronted nonetheless plagues society many years later and that his work “has been marshalled for the cause of persecution toward immigrant communities and people of color.”

Rockwell instructed The Bulwark that her household was “upset” by the posts as her grandfather “was really very clearly anti-segregationist.”

In a 1962 interview, the artist defined, “I was born a white Protestant with some prejudices that I am continuously trying to eradicate… I am angry at unjust prejudices, in other people and myself.”

Last month, Daisy Rockwell and different members of the family declared that it’s time to observe within the artist’s footsteps and “stand for the values he truly wished to share with us and all Americans: compassion, inclusiveness and justice for all.”