Word: canvases
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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A series of accidents propel Juanito from Naolinco, his native village, into the outside world. He becomes a fisherman, a night clerk in a hotel, a hired pistolero, and finally returns home to take over Naolinco as its all-powerful cacique, or village chief. He goes from faded canvas pants...
The place consists chiefly of two studios, his and hers. Josephine Hopper's studio is cheery and crowded with pictures; his is bright, bare, orderly and dominated by a loft. high easel. Hopper built the easel himself, shortly after moving into the studio 43 long years ago. Perhaps twice...
"I look all the time," Hopper explains, "for something that suggests something to me. I think about it. Just to paint a representation or a design is not hard, but to express a thought in painting is. Thought is fluid. What you put on canvas is concrete, and it tends...
Slow Local. However dreary his subject matter, Hopper invariably bathes it in pure, liquid-seeming light. He is as reticent in applying paint to canvas as the abstract expressionists are bold, giving his pictures a single overall surface, as if they were seen through a picture window. By suppressing all...
Slowly, slowly, the train glides, through states and decades, through dreams and reawakenings. The tall, stooped conductor keeps silent. He speaks of his native land on canvas, enriching a tradition that promises to achieve new greatness in the perspective of history.