Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Artist statement HW - Edward Hopper

Edward Hopper

Edward Hopper’s work successfully captures the emotion and feeling of real people living normal city life.  Though he did do landscapes, his figure paintings were by far his most popular.  I believe his figure paintings were successful because he found a way to depict loneliness in large urban areas.  The scale and placement of his figures gives them depth and expression.  His most successful works were bought or commissioned from museums, but his audience was always the American middle-class.  Hopper tried to depict normal middle-class Americans as they really appeared.  

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