Edward Hopper
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Edward Hopper
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Edward Hopper was an American Realist painter, best remembered for his eerily realistic depictions of solitude in contemporary American life.
About Edward Hopper
- Hopper is simply a bad painter, but if he were a better one, he would probably not be such a great artist.
- For most Europeans, Edward Hopper's art confirms a preconceived image of America… Hopper's American qualities are in the scenes he chose to paint.
- Rolf Günter Renner
- Hopper made a lot of changes – he cleaned things up.
- Brian O’Doherty
- Hopper's best pictures are representational only in that simplified, stripped-down, visually dissonant manner that suggests some distant memory, or a dream.... They are simple, yet mysterious; blunt, yet poetic; familiar, yet at the same time inscrutable.
- Walter Wells