Full name: Edward Hopper: 1882-1967 Transformation of the Real

Authors: Rolf Gunter Renner, Edward Hopper, Inge Kappert Year: 1990 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Art, Non Fiction, Biographies Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9783836500333 9783822859858 3836500337 3822859850

Edward Hopper (1882-1967) is considered the first significant American painter in 20th-century art. After decades of patient work, Hopper enjoyed a success and popularity that since the 1950s has continually grown. In canvas after canvas he painted the loneliness of big-city people. Many of Hopper's pictures represent views of streets and roads, rooftops, and abandoned houses, depicted in a brilliant light that strangely belies the melancholy mood of the scenes. Hopper's paintings are marked by striking juxtapositions of colour, and by the clear contours with which the figures are demarcated from their surroundings. His extremely precise focus on the theme of modern men and women in the natural and man-made environment sometimes lends his pictures a mood of eerie disquiet. On the other hand, Hopper's renderings of rocky landscapes in warm brown hues, or his depictions of the seacoast, exude an unusual tranquillity that reveals another, more optimistic side of his character. Similar books: Joan Miro, 1893-1983: The Man and His Work by Janis Mink One Hundred Flowers by Georgia O'Keeffe Artist's Manual by Angela Gair Georgia O'Keeffe by Nancy Frazier Norman Rockwell's America by Christopher Finch The Art Spirit by Robert Henri The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss by Dr. Seuss Lucian Freud Paintings by Robert Hughes Georgia O'Keeffe by Charles C. Eldredge Claude Monet by Karin Sagner Transfigurations by Alex Grey Norman Rockwell 332 Magazine Covers by Christopher Finch Magnetic Storm by Roger Dean False Impressions by Thomas Hoving Seven Days in the Art World by Sarah Thornton Degas by Bernd Growe A Crisis of Brilliance by David Boyd Haycock Salvador Dali by Robert Descharnes The Artful Dodger by Nick Bantock Monet by Christoph Heinrich