The painting in the header image is a gigantic mural by Italian Umberto Romano, a painting that decorates the post office in Springfield, Massachusetts. It is not for nothing that it is called “Mr. Pynchon and the colony of Springfield” and that it represents the Englishman William Pynchon, founder of the city, who in 1635 led an expedition to the valley of the Connecticut River where he encountered fertile villages where Native Americans farmed. the earth in peace. The table represents commercial relationships and the sales and purchases made by this historical figure.
But what is it that the native looks at with so much interest? AND, Why does it look so much like an iPhone Did the legendary William Pynchon not only possess weapons like axes or knives, but also 21st century technology? Time travel has not yet been discovered – and the scientific literature says that it is not possible to travel to the past – so we are faced with a curious case, to say the least.
A Native American reading WhatsApp or taking a selfie?
Born in Bracigliano in 1906 near Salerno, Italy, Romano moved with his parents to the United States when he was 9 years old. After his formative years at Howard Street School and Central High School in Massachusetts, Romano studied at the American Academy in Rome, where, years later, he would become an important board member and vice president from the Academy of Design from 1967 to 1974. And so much so that his work began as classics – portraits of historical figures such as Franklin D. Roosevelt and his mother, Martin Luther King, Jr., President John F. Kennedy or Albert Einstein—, he quickly turned to abstract expressionism.
And the mural we see above is one of many murals he created to tell the story of Springfield. Although Romano has works in the Metropolitan Museum of Art or the Whitney Museum of American Art, this is his best-known work. And it’s because of this curiosity: a Native American holding an iPhone, even though the work was painted in 1933 and depicts figures like Captain John Mason, someone who lived in 1640, three hundred and sixty-seven years before the existence of the first Apple iPhone.
Popular for being the first commercial meat packer in the New World (in 1641, no less), Pynchon renamed Agawam Plantation Springfield in honor of the English village in which he grew up. It grew rapidly and also became the scene of a major conflict: in 1651, Springfield unfortunately hosted the first witch trial in the United States. In fact, Pynchon’s progressivism earned him a charge of heresy which was eventually resolved by the transfer of many properties and he eventually returned to his native England, where he spent his final days living off his earnings .
And in reality, what the native observes makes all the sense in the world and It’s a lot more to do with a selfie than it seems, as it was assumed that he was observing his reflection through a mirror. Man, visibly excited by the amazement of such a thing, will end up acquiring the marvelous progress brought from the old continent.
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