I always loved hoppers rooftop paintings. Gives me so much melancholy

His art is such simple works of simple images ..

What's incredible for me is the fact here you have an American living in one of the busiest areas on Earth and yet he imbues wonderfully a sense of Stillness that is rapturous! For me his Stillness and appreciation of Human Fear, Fear of communicating with other Humans, mark him out as one of the most important Artists not just of the USA but the World!

Very nice appreciation of a great artist, and another testament to the warm and humane talent of the late Morley Safer.

@jgc1077

5 ай бұрын

"Talent' is a bit much, but yeah, safer was a pleasant personality and a good interviewer.

Both speakers were great. I really like this lady.

Although I'm sure I saw a few Edward Hopper paintings or reproductions in New York as a child, my real introduction and time spent studying his technique was when I went to school at Northwestern University and would go to the Art Institute of Chicago regularly. I was drawn in to Nighthawks like most who saw it. Would love to see the show!

If I could go back in time and there was a painter whom I could ask to paint the Santa Fe Express going from a beautiful colorful countryside into a beautiful town on a beautiful day it would be him. I just like the way he paints, and the mystery that adds to them is a bonus also! Great painter and artist.

Light. Shadow. Solitude. 'Nuff said.

They always miss the most important thing - other than light theory … is how the highlights reduce mass into simple shapes with the absence of shadows. It like he squinted his eyes at the landscapes and painted with only highlights and shadows and cut out the mid tones. I look at Hopper as reducing the subject to it’s lowest common denominator.

@IntriguedLioness

Жыл бұрын

I use such a technique in my amateur photography. Yes we can capture every single texture and line, but Edward Hopper new how to capture the stillness of one moment of radiant sun and shadow. Would love to see the show but I'm way over on the west coast now..

I've really been getting into his style lately I've been painting and practicing I hope one day I could achieve what Edward Hopper did.

@lazyscorsese6653

Жыл бұрын

Haha, join the queue!

A great interpreter of painting.

“Sun in an Empty Room” is a minimalist abstract painting...disguised as home interior. I wonder if this was to poke fun at Minimalism or as an unintended bit of admiration for it.

I miss Morley

The Big Sleep was definitely NOT made in 1939, dear lady. Lauren Bacall, who starred in it, would have been just 15 years old in 1939. The Big Sleep was released in 1946.

does anyone know what he ate?

@CarianneRHixson

3 жыл бұрын

lol why? So you can copy it and paint as good as him?

@joana.joana.j

3 жыл бұрын

@@CarianneRHixson yes

@jamesmurray3128

2 жыл бұрын

He gorged himself on peanut butter.

@mickmcknight162

9 ай бұрын

Chop Souey. He has a painting called it anyway ...lol

Edward Hopper, Grant Wood, and Andrew Wyeth are some of my favorites. Abstract garbage not for me...

@michaelwertzy9808

4 жыл бұрын

What moves you, moves you! Docents do their thing, sometimes pretty well, as long as the artist is present, which usually never. When at a gallery or museum exhibit opening I take advantage of the hors d'oeuvres and wine, and go back within a week and be alone with nobody telling another of "what's that supposed to mean"?

@harleylawdude

2 жыл бұрын

Little known is Hopper’s Mohegan series, which is more of impressionistic.

The American Vermeer

So, how exactly does "American simplicity" differ from anyone else's simplicity?

@rebeccabrough8634

2 жыл бұрын

Hopper's subjects include things like automats, gas stations. late night coffee cafes with midcentury lines, and American landscapes and light. They also seem to include a great deal of space without objects of any kind. Those things could be found in a defense of the Turner thesis.

how u become a curator ... i wonder 😂 ... hopper had relationship issue with his dear wife ... his works shout that out ... loneliness ... coldness ... solitariness

Morley's voice is totally burned out from decades and decades of heavy cigarette smoking. His throat is coated with thick mucous

MORLEY SAFER, or whatever his fkng name is, is just an actor, and knows ZILCH about Edward Hopper, painting, or anything else. Also, I can't stand the sun logo in the right hand corner. I quit at 1:09