I never used to take much notice of Hopper, but now I do. One thing I like is that he asks us to slow down and look. There is an absence of movement in his paintings. They seem to be static, but the energy is left up to us to put in as we read his characters and the situations they appear to be in. The paintings make a space for us, draw us in, and before we know it we also are faced with the melancholy, the uncertainty.
Yes, that's precisely what I seem to like about this paintings. The way the characters seem to just be there, yet there's obviously something going on which we are unaware of. The facial expressions of the couple in this painting makes me think there's something wrong. Maybe something during their date didn't go as planned. Maybe there wasn't a date and the man came over to confess something he'd been avoiding, or maybe they're brother and sister, escaping the shouts of yet another of their parents arguments. Either way, I like it.
I never used to take much notice of Hopper, but now I do. One thing I like is that he asks us to slow down and look. There is an absence of movement in his paintings. They seem to be static, but the energy is left up to us to put in as we read his characters and the situations they appear to be in. The paintings make a space for us, draw us in, and before we know it we also are faced with the melancholy, the uncertainty.
ReplyDeleteYes, that's precisely what I seem to like about this paintings. The way the characters seem to just be there, yet there's obviously something going on which we are unaware of. The facial expressions of the couple in this painting makes me think there's something wrong. Maybe something during their date didn't go as planned. Maybe there wasn't a date and the man came over to confess something he'd been avoiding, or maybe they're brother and sister, escaping the shouts of yet another of their parents arguments. Either way, I like it.
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