Seymour Fogel (August 24, 1911 – December 4, 1984) was an American artist whose artistic output included social realist art early in the century, abstract art and expressionist art at mid-century, and transcendental art late in the century. His drive to experiment led him to work with expected media – oil paints, watercolors, and acrylics – as well as unconventional media such as glass, plastics, sand, and wax.
The murals Seymour Fogel executed for the PWAP expressed a persistent optimism – a faith in the institutions and qualities of the American character that many said had been trampled and destabilized by the Great Depression.
Fogel was, in this mural, illustrating Roosevelt’s dictum that “In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.”
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Fogel
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This is a museum piece. Well done but not suitable for the living room wall.
Leslie
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well it’s a mural so it could fit a wall
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It does have character.
Leslie
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I thought so
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😉
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Excellent painting ! Those were the days.
I’m currently painting a picture which I’ve titled “Waiting for the coal jobs to come back to Kentucky and Appalachia” it features Donald Trump taking huge amounts of money from the coal industry and petrochemical oligarchs from Russia while unemployed coal miners wonder where their Healthcare and Social Security went… that’s the rest of the world enjoys a booming economy from renewable energy.
^^Iggy🙈
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that’s nice. I bet it may make the cover of Tie magazine when you’re done.
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Thank you for being so encouraging… but most people look at my paintings and say “It looks like a monkey painted it!”
^^Iggy 🙈
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don’t let them set your boundaries. reach out with your feelings … or a banana … whichever gets you there.
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That is excellent advice. Usually I like to ‘reach out” with a rousing monkey poop fight so I’m thinking about marketing my own line of finger paints made from “all-natural” ingredients… If you catch my drift…
^^Iggy🙊👍👍
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make sure you eat lotsa garlic to add the right odor.
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LOL!👍👍
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🙂
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