Edward Hopper

American

man

loved cinema

nighthawk

at dinner

each picture a story

real show-stopper

wanna go shopping

loneliness

alienation

you know

light shadow

"Smash the Hun"

 

New York Movie, 1939

 

Nighthawks (1942)

 

Chop Suey

 

House by the Railroad (1925

Excursion into Philosophy (1959)
 

 

 

 "Statement"

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world. No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination. One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the human intellect for a private imaginative conception.

The inner life of a human being is a vast and varied realm and does not concern itself alone with stimulating arrangements of color, form and design.

The term life used in art is something not to be held in contempt, for it implies all of existence and the province of art is to react to it and not to shun it.

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

                                                                                                         

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

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