Hotspur🏳️🌈🇺🇦 on Nostr: "Ground Swell," Edward Hopper, 1939. We all know Hopper. Although we know him as a ...
"Ground Swell," Edward Hopper, 1939.
We all know Hopper. Although we know him as a painter of urban scenes, Hopper was a sailing enthusiast.
This is another great summertime painting, but it has undercurrents of menace and isolation. While we have a group of young folks on the boat, nobody is looking at or interacting with each other. The buoy indicates some sort of danger that they need to be aware of. And it looks like storm clouds are lurking on the horizon.
Although there are many interpretations of this painting, it must be noted that Hopper finished it just as WWII was breaking out in Europe...so there's no doubt in my mind as to what the buoy is warning of, or what those clouds in the distance represent.
From the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
#Art #AmericanArt #EdwardHopper #Sailing #Modernism #Realism #AshcanSchool
We all know Hopper. Although we know him as a painter of urban scenes, Hopper was a sailing enthusiast.
This is another great summertime painting, but it has undercurrents of menace and isolation. While we have a group of young folks on the boat, nobody is looking at or interacting with each other. The buoy indicates some sort of danger that they need to be aware of. And it looks like storm clouds are lurking on the horizon.
Although there are many interpretations of this painting, it must be noted that Hopper finished it just as WWII was breaking out in Europe...so there's no doubt in my mind as to what the buoy is warning of, or what those clouds in the distance represent.
From the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
#Art #AmericanArt #EdwardHopper #Sailing #Modernism #Realism #AshcanSchool