Arnold Friberg was an American painter and illustrator with an amazing eye. Though in a similar style to Norman Rockwell's, his material had it's own flavour; his images are gripping and full of character. He's best known for four things: his amazing painting of George Washington praying at Valley Forge (bottom left), the pre-production promo paintings for THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (bottom center), colourful depictions of scenes from the Book of Mormon (Friberg was raised a Mormon), and finally, he painted some of the greatest Canadian Mountie art ever produced.
His stuff sits squarely in the center of the Mountie ideal; honest, strong, brave and capable, and each is chock-a-block full of stalwart goings-on and derring-do. As a fan of the Mountie image, I'm really inspired by this stuff. That's why this kind of heroic image exists; in the face of an irregular and occasionally disappointing reality, they serve to remind us of what could be possible with some effort. Friberg really had the touch for this kind of thing.
His stuff sits squarely in the center of the Mountie ideal; honest, strong, brave and capable, and each is chock-a-block full of stalwart goings-on and derring-do. As a fan of the Mountie image, I'm really inspired by this stuff. That's why this kind of heroic image exists; in the face of an irregular and occasionally disappointing reality, they serve to remind us of what could be possible with some effort. Friberg really had the touch for this kind of thing.
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