I mean in context, yeah, but if you go by the painting itself without context (and the meme useage seems to support me on this) it's clearly basically a riff on a famous photograph of this guy who might've been cool.
The picture I posted is from 1936 and rockwells painting is from 1943, 100% chance that was how this went. Guy looked at the guy not doing the nazi salute (again, possibly cool) and went his analysis went all of "guy opposed to government good" which isn't wrong given the picture, admittadly, but is otherwise a garbage libertarian take
With all due respect I think you are wrong in this. The photo was taken in Germany and Rockwell would not have necessarily had access to it. There was no internet for photos to instantly cross 5000 miles. I do not believe it was published in the States at all and as far as I can find at a glance it was not published anywhere until the 90s. Even if it was published, it would have to be very famous for Rockwell to surely have seen it, and its fame is very much a post-war thing.
Plus the photo and painting do not really depict analogous things, to me the similarities seem very surface-level. I'd be willing to hear you out if you had more evidence for what you are saying but two things being vaguely similar (which these barely are) does not do it analytically
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I mean who makes a habit of painting people positively who they think suck ass
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I mean in context, yeah, but if you go by the painting itself without context (and the meme useage seems to support me on this) it's clearly basically a riff on a famous photograph of this guy who might've been cool.
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The picture I posted is from 1936 and rockwells painting is from 1943, 100% chance that was how this went. Guy looked at the guy not doing the nazi salute (again, possibly cool) and went his analysis went all of "guy opposed to government good" which isn't wrong given the picture, admittadly, but is otherwise a garbage libertarian take
With all due respect I think you are wrong in this. The photo was taken in Germany and Rockwell would not have necessarily had access to it. There was no internet for photos to instantly cross 5000 miles. I do not believe it was published in the States at all and as far as I can find at a glance it was not published anywhere until the 90s. Even if it was published, it would have to be very famous for Rockwell to surely have seen it, and its fame is very much a post-war thing.
Plus the photo and painting do not really depict analogous things, to me the similarities seem very surface-level. I'd be willing to hear you out if you had more evidence for what you are saying but two things being vaguely similar (which these barely are) does not do it analytically