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Edward Hopper - Morning Sun 1952

4/22/2020

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Edward Hopper - Morning Sun 1952 Columbus Museum of Art
"In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people."
Edward Hopper
Since we began living with so much uncertainty there is one  thing I know for sure. The sunny days are better. That made me think of Morning Sun painted by American artist Edward Hopper (1882 - 1967)
I can relate to the woman feeling the sun through the window instead of outside. It feels hopeful and wistful at the same time. 

About the painting from theartstory.com
This work was produced late in Hopper's life, when he was nearly 70 years old. Nevertheless it embodies the same themes of existentialism noted throughout his oeuvre
, connecting him with the parallel efforts of contemporary artists such as Andrew Wyeth. The latter's exploration of Christina's world shares much of the same sentiment and effect. In Hopper's painting a woman (his wife Jo at age 68), is noted sitting upright on a neatly-made bed, staring out the window. The morning sun streams through the window, raking over the figure and onto the blank wall behind. The artist obscures details of her aging face and figure by a distinct lack of detail; her expression is ambiguous, perhaps pensive, perhaps regretful. As in much of his work, the figure is included to capture a mood or suggest a psychological effect, rather than to serve as the portrait of a specific individual. Beyond embodying dramatic means of delineation noted in other works of early modernism, including stark light, he adopts the window motif in order to add psychological weight, open to varied interpretation, as was done a century earlier by Romantic artists such as Caspar David Friedrich.

About the Artist from Wikipedia 

Always reluctant to discuss himself and his art, Hopper simply said, "The whole answer is there on the canvas."[47] Hopper was stoic and fatalistic—a quiet introverted man with a gentle sense of humor and a frank manner. Hopper was someone drawn to an emblematic, anti-narrative symbolism,[54] who "painted short isolated moments of configuration, saturated with suggestion". read more

Resources 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Hopper
​https://www.theartstory.org/artist/hopper-edward/#nav
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