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Edward Hopper: the artist who evoked urban loneliness and disappointment with beautiful clarity
by James Peacock
Senior Lecturer in English and American Literatures, Keele University
When Edward Hopper’s retrospective at Tate Modern in London closed in September , more than , tickets had been sold. Up to that point, only the acclaimed duo of Matisse and Picasso had beat this record. It is now 50 years since Hopper died and his popularity hasn’t waned. What is it about Hopper’s brand of melancholy that has struck a chord with so many?
Walking through the rooms of the exhibition was both exhilarating and dispiriting. The vivid colours of Automat () and Nighthawks () against the contrasts of light and shade were sharp, suggestive and familiar. The images of lone individuals in impersonal spaces, with hollowed and dark eyes gazing from windows or down at their drinks, are combined to remind spectators that the default state of humanity is i
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Light and Obliquity: Edward Hopper at the Whitney Museum
by Sam Ben-Meir
Sam Ben-Meir is an assistant adjunct professor of philosophy at City University of New York, College of Technology.
Clement Greenberg once observed that Edward Hopper was a “bad painter. But if he were a better painter, he would, most likely, not be so superior an artist.” “Edward Hopper’s New York,” a major retrospective currently on view at the Whitney Museum, confirms this judgment. There is occasionally a klumpighet to Hopper, especially when he steps out of his bekvämlighet zone. But he knew where he excelled, and perhaps was unrivalled – that fryst vatten, in capturing the unmistakable atmosphere of the city, and finding it not in the typical places, skyscrapers, crowds, traffic, and such. Hopper looked to the strange and transient moments of stillness and solitude: it was at such unpromising moments that he was able to convey, as Greenberg described, an “insight into the present naturlig eller utan tillsats of
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Edward Hopper (22 July , Upper Nyack, USA – 15 May , New York, USA) is an American painter called “the poet of the era” and “the gloomy socialist realist”. Hopper liked painting since early childhood, and his parents supported his desire to become an artist. He learned at the New York Graphics School and the New York Art School. Despite the popularity of avant-garde painting trends, Hopper has always remained true to realism movement. The painter travelled a lot, drawing inspiration in empty freeways and in the streets of different cities.
Creative features of the artist Edward Hopper: he has invented his own special genre, “a portrait of a house”; on his canvases, alone standing buildings often appear. Hopper often painted deserted, seemingly life-deprived urban landscapes. And the stories with people appear to be peeped sneakily.
Famous paintings by Edward Hopper: Nighthawks, House by the Railroad, Self-Portrait,
New York Cinema, Early Sunday Morning, Room In New York.
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