Josephine Nivison – 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)”

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”

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”

– 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)”