“We are all lone figures that are lost in thoughts and now we all can connect with Edward hopper, an American artist’s paintings while sitting at home”
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By Vaani Pujar, 16 April, 2020
Hopper’s paintings are a contemplated work, an important painter of the “American imagination”, an occurrence which his urban paintings capture. He earned his career in the mid- 1920s and 1930s, known for paintings of urban life.
Most people feel connected with his work, his canvases have a feeling and a meaning to it, his urban paintings feature motels, cafes, rain stations, places that are really far from home. It feels that the particular painting is demanding something for us and we don’t even know.
One of his famous work is the Nighthawks (1942), notice the painting, against the contrast light and shades that are very sharp, people in their impersonal space, gazing from the windows, or down at their drinks, which tells us about the state of humanity is isolation.
Hopper captures individuals who are caught up in life but with unknown loneliness, just like another famous painting Automat, a woman sitting in a restaurant or a café curls over a table and has a cup of coffee. The black windows tell us that it is dark outside, and the layers of clothing indicates it is cold outside.
Ah! if you could say it in words there would be no reason to really paint. Another painting by Edward hopper is night windows (1928), positioning a viewer in a building, looking closely you will see a woman bending over in the room opposite, something voyeuristic, Or a difficulty to reach out and connecting with others, a picture of a frangible woman. a series of Edward hopper and the American hotel, the colour balanced in those paintings are just marvellous, if you are standing across the room this painting might catch your eye from a distance.
More of us comes out when we improvise. Each stroke on his canvas is a careful gesture, each stroke moves and each stroke on his canvas tells a story, we see us in his paintings, he wants to make us seek not to amalgam our loneliness, but simply accept it. Everyone has their own personal reasons for loving Edward Hopper.
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