Saturday, June 8, 2013

Hopper


At some point when I was young I was exposed to paintings by Edward Hopper.  I don’t know if it was at the National Gallery in DC or at the Philadelphia Art Museum.  Somewhere somehow thought I saw the works of this quintessential American artist and was captivated. The one painting that always stuck with me was Gas. Hopper’s greatest paintings have been described as representations of loneliness, alienation, melancholy, or solitude. When I go walking about in the weird yellow light that our current streetlights throw off I am often reminded of Hopper’s images. http://www.moma.org/collection/object.php?object_id=80000
 

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