The correct comparison here is to Norman Rockwell in the world of painting (Spielberg considers Rockwell one of his greatest artistic inspirations and helped finance an exhibition of his work at the Smithsonian)https://twitter.com/nberlat/status/1254053264292810755 …
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His harshest critics called him "merely an illustrator", which is one of those things that sounds like it has an objective meaning but doesn't really that people say when they've just decided they don't respect you "He doesn't make films he makes movies" etc
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I mean yeah he was an illustrator, he did tons of art for magazine covers and advertisements and whatnot, but at the same time as he was doing his thing Andy Warhol was creating the Pop Art movement and convincing all the fancy pants critics there was no distinction
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the difference is that Rockwell is good, I'd say.
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it helps that he didn't do art about the Holocaust.
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Also, the best of both of their works has far more weight than what their critics believe.
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