{"id":97,"date":"2009-02-26T19:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T19:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/2009\/02\/edward-hoppers-art.html"},"modified":"2009-02-26T19:40:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-26T19:40:00","slug":"edward-hoppers-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/2009\/02\/edward-hoppers-art.html","title":{"rendered":"Edward Hopper&#8217;s art"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reviewroom.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/sunday-philosophy-club.html\">Isabel Dalhousie<\/a> also has thoughts on art, and I am presenting them here, because they so agree with mine; Hopper and Vettriano are two of my favorites :<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cHen left the room, and Isabel leaned back into the sofa and looked about her. It was well-furnished, unlike many rented flats, which quickly develop a well-used look. There were prints on the wall \u2013 the landlord\u2019s taste, presumably mixed with that of the tenant: a view of the Falls of Cyde (landlord); A Bigger Splash, by Hockney, and Amateur Philosophers by Vettriano (tenants); and Iona, by Peploe (landlord). She smiled at the Vettriano \u2013 he was deeply disapproved of by the artistic establishment in Edinburgh, but he remained resolutely popular. Why was this ? Because his figurative paintings said something about people\u2019s lives (at least about the lives of the people who danced on the beach in formal clothing); they had a narrative in the same way in which Edward Hopper\u2019s paintings did. That was why there were so many poems inspired by Hopper; it was because there was a now-read-on note to everything he painted. Why are the people there ? What are they thinking now ? What are they going to do now ?\u201d<br \/><\/em><br \/><a title=\"chopsuey by amodini, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/amodini\/3308610280\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"414\" alt=\"chopsuey\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3352\/3308610280_ffac2e636e.jpg\" width=\"500\" align=\"center\/\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"> <\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">Above : &#8220;Chop Suey&#8221; by Edward Hopper<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"> <\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nga.gov\/exhibitions\/2007\/hopper\/index.shtm\">Edward Hopper\u2019s paintings<\/a> indeed do have that \u201cnow-read-on\u201d feeling about them. Each of his painting is a snapshot of people doing something \u2013 it could be something as prosaic as reading a newspaper, but they leave you curious. <\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/11570614-4654018894105163288?l=reviewroom.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isabel Dalhousie also has thoughts on art, and I am presenting them here, because they so agree with mine; Hopper and Vettriano are two of my favorites : \u201cHen left the room, and Isabel leaned back into the sofa and looked about her. It was well-furnished, unlike many rented flats, which quickly develop a well-used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_17000648_17000648":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-recommended"],"aioseo_notices":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"post-thumbnail":false,"sow-carousel-default":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"amodini","author_link":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/author\/admin"},"uagb_comment_info":1,"uagb_excerpt":"Isabel Dalhousie also has thoughts on art, and I am presenting them here, because they so agree with mine; Hopper and Vettriano are two of my favorites : \u201cHen left the room, and Isabel leaned back into the sofa and looked about her. 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