Edward Hopper
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I am interested primarily in the vast field of experience and sensation which neither literature nor a purely plastic art deals with.
— Letter to Charles Sawyer of Addison Gallery of Art October 19 , 1939
Edward Hopper (* 22. Juli 1882 in Nyack, New York; † 15. Mai 1967 in New York City, New York) war ein amerikanischer Maler des Amerikanischen Realismus. Hoppers in kühler Farbgebung gehaltene realistische Bilder weisen auf die Einsamkeit des modernen Menschen und Leere des modernen Lebens hin. Er gilt als Chronist der US-amerikanischen Zivilisation.
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I am interested primarily in the vast field of experience and sensation which neither literature nor a purely plastic art deals with.
I was always interested in architecture, but the editors [of the magazines who demanded these subjects for the illustrations of Hopper] wanted people waving with their arms.
The idea [for his painting 'Room in New York', he painted in 1932] had been in my mind a long time before I painted it.
My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impressions of nature.
If this end is unattainable, so, it can be said, is perfection in any other ideal of painting or in any other of man's activities.
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