President Teddy roosevelt gave an empowering speech about freedom at the 1941 state of the union address. After that speech, a man named Norman Rockwell was inspired to express those freedoms in action. The best way for him to express those freedoms was to paint images of them being exercised, since he was a very skilled artist. Rockwell later named the paintings the “four freedoms”, which is widely known today due to it being well known in america during world war two. The four freedoms were the freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from fear and want. I wonder to this day if his paintings are still relevant to today’s society and if those freedoms are exercised freely as they were back then. The freedom of speech is the right to express an opinion without any censorship whats so ever. In february 1943 rockwell expressed this freedom by painting a man at the jim edgerton town meeting, standing up and speaking freely. While he must of believed that freedom of speech was important because everyone should have a say in how the town was going to be governed. However, unlike in today’s society, you can speak freely, but can arrested or charged for saying highly sensitive words. An example of that would be the recent arguments and violence during this year’s presidential election events. The freedom of worship…show more content… I believe rockwell’s main idea in this painting was that americans should not have to worry about a war starting outside their homes. This freedom is not very free since the september 2001 attacks, that left american citizens fearful and sensitive of traveling via domestic transportation. Rockwell painted this picture in 1943 during world war two, when london was being bombed by the german luftwaffe. He was also a big supporter of the military during the war by him serving in the navy years earlier, in which he was discharged due to unfit for military
