Word: hoppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thank you for the cover story on Edward Hopper [Dec. 24]. This is the comprehensive type of article on art that the people understand. Refreshing compared to some of the stuff appearing in the art publications...
...already in residence at his other home in Beverly Hills. (Movie pressagents, sniffing some profitable headlines for their clients, quickly got into the act with a string of announcements describing the tribulations of various movie folk, e.g., Kim Novak, Jane Russell, Alan Ladd and Glenn Ford. Even Hedda Hopper's hats got a mention when the ranch owned by her male milliners was burned...
...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 to direct the thought. The more you put on canvas, the more you lose control of the thought. I've never' been able to paint what I set out to paint...
...What Hopper has been able to do, he would never admit. He has opened a whole new chapter in American realism, painting a new world never before pictured. Where Copley created a world of men, Cole a world of nature, and Homer a world of struggle between the two. Hopper paints the raw, uneasy world that Americans have built on this land...
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 details that would not be noticed in a passing glance, and arranging his compositions to suggest that the scene extends far beyond the frame, he puts his picture window in motion. Seeing a Hopper exhibition is like floating through people's backyards on a slow local, in a state...