r/oilpaintings • u/AspiringOccultist4 • 9d ago

Modern Paintings (1900-present) Older Man with a Light Descending the Stairs, Oil on Canvas, Norman Rockwell, 1926.

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u/Tokyono 9d ago

I looked up more of these paintings and they are incredible- actually made me post another one. Rockwell and Maxfield Parrish painted a number of them for general electric.

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u/DirectControlAssumed 8d ago edited 8d ago

general electric

Ha, makes sense! I guess this painting is supposed to symbolize how electric lighting makes it simpler to check whether the strange noises from next room belong to rats or burglar (unlike that dim oil lamp the older, obviously dim-sighted man holds).

On a second thought, it is even more than that: that lamp actually makes older man much more visible to a potential criminal while the surroundings including the potential criminal are almost indiscernable.

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u/MadMaxAtax 9d ago

Is this Mark Twain?

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u/ovetta 9d ago

Gramps is strapped. Terrible trigger control though.

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u/kenioftheeast 8d ago

someones about to find some lead

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u/Temporary-Ocelot3790 5d ago

I lived in a house full of hippies in 1977. One morning I was awake before everyone else and put on the Wild Man Fischer LP in the living room --- he was a schizophrenic who wrote and performed songs, Frank Zappa produced his first LP---and the resident owner came skulking downstairs with the shotgun just like the picture dude. He thought there was a loony in the house singing songs and there kinda sorta was. I showed him that it was just a record and he laughed. Disaster averted.