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There's something disturbing about Hopper's painting. I'm not an art person, so my observations are probably either trite or wrong, but: There's only one time that I ever saw my own bones and connective tissue; and they were the same white, and the blood the same red, as what Hopper uses.
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My favorite Hopper: link
(And they sewed everything back on, so no harm, no foul, in case anyone should wonder.)
There's only one time that I ever saw my own bones and connective tissue; and they were the same white, and the blood the same red, as what Hopper uses.
Of course, I can't say that, but that shit's spooky, ain't it?
Crack, I hope you are okay.
I did a post on a recent Hopper show in Paris.
Not trite or wrong at all, remarkably perceptive, actually. I would not have thought of that. It gets you, and that's how it got you. I dare say most people could not put their finger on it, they'd shrug and go, "Dunno, it just bugs me."
There is this older classic too...
@Evi, in French is Hopper homophonic with "au pair"?
Hopper's work is interesting.
Sure it's disturbing. When you see Vladimir Lenin singing opera to an empty theater, with one patron grabbing her coat and making for the door while the other patron ignores him to read a book, you can understand why he became an angry Communist hell-bent on world domination.
Evi L. Bloggerlady,
Crack, I hope you are okay.
Thanks, Cowpaddy. It's painful - which includes facing disability - but, physically, I'm making all the proper accommodations.
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Fucking brutal,...
I always thought everything on the inside is color-coded, same as in the text books.
Pasta, you need to put down the weights.
I put a Hopper calendar on my kitchen wall in 2010. I never took it down.
There is something off-putting about Hopper. However, I don't know I would go quite so far as to call it disturbing.
Mark Strand, a celebrated poet, has written a wonderful book of art criticism on Hopper. I wish all such books were written with similar insight and feeling. Strand says, and I agree, that his poetry is comparable to Hopper's painting -- a rare combination, so I'm bound to be disappointed.
Here's a paragraph that gets to to the point IMO of the oddness of a Hopper painting:
WITHIN THE question of how much the scenes in Hopper are influenced by an imprisoning, or at least a limiting, dark is the issue of our temporal arrangements -- what do we do with time and what does time do to us? In Hopper's paintings there is a lot of waiting going on. Hopper's people seem to have nothing to do. They are like characters whose parts have deserted them and now, trapped in the space of their waiting, must keep themselves company, with no clear place to go, no future.
--Mark Strand, "Hopper"
You feel less lonely and disconnected when you're sitting in the expensive seats than when you're sitting in a cheap diner.
Yeah, when Hopper goes wrong, he really goes wrong. Looks like a still from a lost Romero splatterpic.
I'm convinced that every Hopper painting is in actuality an observation of the tenuousness of civilization, the frailty of man in nature, a celebration of his meager successes in keeping it at bay.
Shudder. More stills from Lost Romero Horror Film #2: Living Dead in Paris.
She suddenly decided at the moment, all she wanted to do was watch the world burn.
ampersand...
Never thought of it that way.....spot on!
Pasta:
"There's only one time that I ever saw my own bones and connective tissue; and they were the same white, and the blood the same red, as what Hopper uses."
Too cool. The only Hopper I'm familiar with is 'The Nighthawks,' which I've always loved for its noir starkness.
I just looked at google images and thought this one is pretty cool.
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