Thomas Hart Benton And Edward Hopper On Hollywood And Hollywood Movies – Benton’s “Hollywood” (1938) and Hopper’s “New-York Movie” (1939)

03 Mar 2017

Posted by Victor-Katia as Discussion and Mind-Probing, Edward Hopper, Paintings, sculptures and drawings analyzed, Thomas Hart Benton

By Looking At Benton’s Mural We Feel The Technological Smell Of Production, But, Following Benton, We Don’t Feel Any Air Of Art Benton’s mural-sized painting “Hollywood” was intended, the artist remarked, to show that the movie industry was “predominantly an economically conditioned art”. “The movie art is not only a business but a business expression. […]

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Edward Hopper’s Paintings With Humorous Connotations – “Night Windows” (1928), “Conference at Night” (1949) and “Room in New York” (1932)

01 Jul 2015

Posted by victor as Discussion and Mind-Probing, Edward Hopper, Gustav Klimt, Paintings, sculptures and drawings analyzed

Gustav Klimt’s Painting “Gold Fish” (1901 – 1902) Can Be Put In A Semantically Oppositional Association With Hopper’s “Night Windows” Edward Hopper, “Night Windows”, 1928 Big apartment building of a solid construction and heavy arhitectural style which were dominant in the American urban settings before and right after WWII, attracts our eyes to three windows […]

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Edouard Manet’s “Plum Brandy” (1876) and Edward Hopper’s “Automat” (1927) – Psychology Of The Individual In Public Sphere

06 Jan 2014

Posted by victor as Discussion and Mind-Probing, Edouard Manet, Edward Hopper

From Emotional Openness To Psychological Reservation Or Even Existential Shutting Up The theme of “Automat” alludes to the decline of the public sphere. Although the place depicted is nominally public, it does not create the impression of actually being so. The woman seated… appears entirely turned inward upon herself, and her isolation is increased by […]

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Edward Hopper’s “Nighthawks” (1942) – Alienation between People as a Result of Their Strongly Felt “Individual Responsibility” to Achieve Success

12 Jan 2013

Posted by victor as Discussion and Mind-Probing, Edward Hopper, Paintings, sculptures and drawings analyzed

People Separated by Invisible Walls of Individual Achievements In “Nighthawks” unconsciously, probably, I was painting the loneliness of a large city. Edward Hopper Hopper has rendered the interior with great attention to detail, painstakingly delineating salt and pepper shakers, napkin dispensers, cups, and coffee machines. The arrangement recalls a lab set-up, spread out for perusal […]

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Edward Hopper’s Three Paintings – “Sunday” (1926), “Pennsylvania Coal Town” (1947) and “Cape Cod Morning” (1950): Servants and Ghosts of Material Civilization

06 Oct 2012

Posted by victor as Discussion and Mind-Probing, Edward Hopper, Paintings, sculptures and drawings analyzed

Americans In Between Work and Themselves (When Historically Consumerism Was Not Yet Activated) Hopper’s smooth transition from a mimetic art (no more than realistic, representational and tending towards the narrative) to a symbolic art… For the self-reflective sign system established in his painting not only recodes realistic elements and symbolic relations; it also creates a […]

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Edward Hopper’s “Two on the Isle” (1927) – Demand-0riented (Commercial or Propagandist) Art

05 Mar 2011

Posted by victor as Discussion and Mind-Probing, Edward Hopper, Paintings, sculptures and drawings analyzed

Art of Human Otherness and Consumers of Entertaining Art Edward Hopper, “Two on the Isle”, 1927 Has the show ended or it didn’t start yet? Are the two in the isle dressing to leave or undressing to feel comfortably during the event? All of this is not important if it is audience-centered art: oriented on […]

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Edward Hopper (1882 – 1967) – Fragmented Portrait of Escapism from Psychological Internality

07 Jan 2011

Posted by victor as Discussion and Mind-Probing, Edward Hopper, Paintings, sculptures and drawings analyzed

To live in an Emotionally Rarefied Air of Instrumental Urbanism Impregnated by Dry Dreams of Super-success Edward Hopper, “People in the Sun” (1960) People depicted here by Hopper cannot just relax in the sun. Instead, they project to the situation of taking sun their rigidities and stresses, and their business oriented energies over-stimulated by science […]

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Thomas Hart Benton And Edward Hopper On Hollywood And Hollywood Movies – Benton’s “Hollywood” (1938) and Hopper’s “New-York Movie” (1939)

Edward Hopper’s Paintings With Humorous Connotations – “Night Windows” (1928), “Conference at Night” (1949) and “Room in New York” (1932)

Edouard Manet’s “Plum Brandy” (1876) and Edward Hopper’s “Automat” (1927) – Psychology Of The Individual In Public Sphere

Edward Hopper’s “Nighthawks” (1942) – Alienation between People as a Result of Their Strongly Felt “Individual Responsibility” to Achieve Success

Edward Hopper’s Three Paintings – “Sunday” (1926), “Pennsylvania Coal Town” (1947) and “Cape Cod Morning” (1950): Servants and Ghosts of Material Civilization

Edward Hopper’s “Two on the Isle” (1927) – Demand-0riented (Commercial or Propagandist) Art

Edward Hopper (1882 – 1967) – Fragmented Portrait of Escapism from Psychological Internality

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