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Very interesting to read -- thank you very much for taking the time for this.
I wouldn't have thought of the Rockwell-Joubert comparison. Maybe I
don't know enough about Rockwell but I think of him as a faux-naive
artist and illustrator whose primary audience was sentimental adults.
Joubert seems to be aiming at an audience of boys of about the same age
as those he depicts in his illustrations.
Nonetheless one might argue that some of Rockwell's work shows
considerable painterly sophistication (even when the thematic content
is shallow).
in that both have plainly identified the homoerotic current inherent in
this Boy Thing. Their conception of ideal young-male beauty seems
similar -- while Rockwell never seems all that interested in making his
painterly subjects so physically attractive, indeed seems to enjoy
exagerrating their physical akwardness.
On 2009-02-24 01:21:46 -0500, nesScitur@husShmail.com (Ronin) said:
>
> Pierre Joubert (1910-2002) was to Le Scoutisme in France what
> Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) was to Scouting in America: the
> illustrator who not only recorded its early years, but also
> strongly influenced the way the movement saw itself.
>
> But where boys as Rockwell drew them were mostly unexceptional,
> the boys Joubert drew -- at least in his realistic art -- were
> slender, flat-bellied, and as graceful as cats: to no small
> extent, his drawings defined *the* ideal body form for several
> generations of French boys.
>
> Joubert's drawings celebrate the Boy Thing -- adventure, in a
> word -- more exuberantly than possibly any other artist: his
> boys are almost always *doing* something, and frequently doing
> it quite enthusiastically, strenuously, seriously, desperately,
> and/or heroically; Rockwell's boys are, by comparison, seldom
> more than figures in a Christmas tableau.
>
> And to those who object that some of the celebrants of the Boy
> Thing in these pictures do not appear to be... exactly *boys*,
> one can only observe that if the Boy Thing is defined as being
> What Boys Do, might it not be useful to treat anyone who does
> What Boys Do as a Boy? Why should a Pink Blanket be Destiny?
>
> And do Joubert's girls please the eye any less than his boys?
>
>
> Ronin
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