Norman Rockwell Civil Discourse

Art speaks to more than just the eyes. Art goes deep into the understanding of the meaning of what the picture is portraying. In this case, civil discourse will be displayed through many artists. For example, Norman Rockwell painted the Freedom of Speech painting in 1943. Civil Discourse is discussing something to be better understood with an unbiased opinion. While looking at art and digging deeper into the meaning, a question will appear, to what extent does civil discourse or lack thereof, improve, diminish, or hold society at status quo? Norman Rockwell created a picture of a man standing up and talking in a town meeting. How does this painting symbolize civil discourse? This man is talking about what they can do to fix what is going on in society. Throughout this piece of art, he is showing how standing up and discussing a situation is not always negative. This is why we have Freedom of Speech. This is important because he is getting the point across. In this society, we have to be able to have
In this painting, there is a young boy colored onto the page with a bruised eye and a tooth missing. The young bold is holding up a sign that says, ¨Civil Discourse Please!!¨ This toothless young man is facing conflict as he is standing holding this sign. Things are being thrown at him as if he was this dreadful actor. In the bottom right-hand corner, there is a green bottle with fire coming out of it. Why does this matter to us? The answer to that question is why doesn't it matter. If we cannot come to an agreement without becoming angry then how will we as a society fix the complications going on around us? As everyone is arguing about how they are right, we aren't realizing the other problems going on around our country or even the world. Without civil discourse, problems will keep coming and piling up like the garbage being thrown at this boy in the