"This was [inspired] from something I saw Norman Rockwell do, which was a flat compositional style, where all of the figures don’t recede in the background as these rows of figures are all the same exact size and proportion."
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Top row left to right: Metamorpho, Hawkgirl, Plastic Man, Elongated Man, Martian Manhunter, Zatanna, Black Canary, Captain Marvel, and Atom.
Bottom row left to right: Hawkman, Green Lantern, Flash, Aquaman, Superman, Green Arrow, Batman, Red Tornado, and Wonder Woman.
“This was [inspired] from something I saw Norman Rockwell do, which was a flat compositional style, where all of the figures don’t recede in the background as these rows of figures are all the same exact size and proportion. So, there’s a lack of depth, but part of that is the power of the piece, that you get this sense of almost a ‘class photo’ as you’ve taken the camera shot from far away of a full grouping of people. But, something of that flatness was very powerful to me when I saw it in illustrations done by Rockwell. He did it in a number of pieces and one that’s on display in the show is of the U.N., where the figures seated of the U.N. members with a backdrop of people behind them kind of created this image in graphic for me, and I wanted to emulate that very strongly.”
