Edward Hopper – INVISIBLE FORMS

Edward Hopper (XVI) – Pulling us inside the painting

Compartment C, Car 293 (1938) A train compartment, a lone woman, reading by a window, the sight of a bridge, a mixture of artificial light with that… Read more “Edward Hopper (XVI) – Pulling us inside the painting”

I consider these three oils, representing people in restaurants, as a group or series in Hopper’s work. While the moods of the protagonists are variable and quite… Read more “Edward Hopper (XV) – Changing moods from one restaurant to another (1922-30)”

Soir Bleu, painted by Hopper in 1914 in Paris, France, is the most peculiar among all Hopper’s works, and at that early stage of his career, his… Read more “Edward Hopper (XIV) – An early and quite queer masterwork: Soir Bleu”

Hopper’s portraits of buildings, villages, landscapes…, faithful as they may be, are also inner portraits. They quite deliberately represent the painter’s mood and, often times, tell some… Read more “Edward Hopper (XIII) – “Portrait of Orleans” from a car about to crash”

After a rather long interval, I come back to my ongoing series of posts about Edward Hopper. Despite having already advanced drafts for longer posts, I feel… Read more “Edward Hopper (XII) – A Dawn and two Dusks”

Edward Hopper’s lifelong enthusiasm for the sea developed when he was a boy in Nyack, NY, then a prosperous Hudson River port with an active shipyard. Years… Read more “Edward Hopper (XI) – The Sailing Boats – oils and watercolours”

Many paintings of houses, and buildings in general, by Edward Hopper are like portraits, in which the houses themselves hold some human attributes –while the human presence… Read more “Edward Hopper (X) – Some more Houses with face, mind and soul”

– The power of simple bright colours and a brisk contrast of light and shadows is quite evident in most of Edward Hopper’s mature work –from the… Read more “An Illustration for “American Locomotive” by E. Hopper, 1944″

– One of the favourite and most appreciated motives of Ed Hopper were lighthouses; he painted them with delight, insistence and a deep empathy toward their look,… Read more “Many Views of a Few Lighthouses – Edward Hopper (VII)”

–As far as I know, Edward Hopper made 724 paintings (oils and watercolours) between 1893 and 1965. Among them, there is an ostensible majority of houses, railway… Read more “Edward Hopper (VI) – “Portraits” of houses; oils and watercolours – 1912 to 1940″

Hopper never liked to characterize himself as an illustrator or printmaker, preferring to be known as a painter, but he did find commercial success and a livelihood… Read more “Early engravings by Edward Hopper – sprightly life in black-and-white”

I am almost sure that my sister didn’t see this painting, since she would have shared it with me or made me know of it somehow. It… Read more “A painting by Ed Hopper: “Room in Brooklyn””