LIFE:Edward Hopper(1882-1967): His life was strikigly quite and orderly, without abrupt aboutturns or upheavals, neither of a psychological nor even of a merely geographical kind. In a sense there is very little to say. Apart from two sojourns in Europe, Hopper lived in New York from 1908 on. For over 50 years, till the day he died, his studio was on the top floor of 3 Washingto Square North. the fame that came his way from the Tenties onwards never went to his head, and he lived a quiet life there with his wife Jo.
--------- from the book Edward Hopper, 1882-1967 :transformation of the real
PAINTING:a prominent American realist painter and printmaker." His art confirms a preconceived image of America, which is not due to the painter's style or aproach. What is so American is the subject matter. Hopper's American qualities are in the scenes he chose to paint."
"His paintings tend not to offer us extensive panoramas: rather they limit the view-and Hopper often substitutes an interior seen through a window, or widow prospects limited by houses or other icons of civilized word, for an unstricted view of nature."
"The work of Hopper displays a comparable transformation, the transfer of visual interest to the interior......He hs his eye on psychological factors rather than on the merely visible: representational realism is used as system of encoded signs that communicate the subconscious basis of conscious perception."
"Through Hopper was a painter of landscapes and townscapes, he also painted female nudes throughout his working life. this nudes begin with earlu studies influenced by impressionism, include psychologically suggestive and seemingly narrative pictures."
--------- from the book Edward Hopper, 1882-1967 :transformation of the real
"Maybe I am not very human. What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house."
------------Edward Hopper
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