Edward Hopper Reality And Artifice Analysis

Edward Hopper is someone I keep returning to for inspiration. The underlying expression of melancholy and existential solitude embodied in his work resonate with me. In Bryan Robertson’s article Edward Hopper Reality and Artifice, Robertson explains, “Hopper favoured stillness, perhaps from his own Dutch forebears, and he focused on solitude, even when more than one person is portrayed, and something very near to alienation - and desolation.” He further states that no other artist “got anywhere near Hopper's special world of solitude and silence…” For this very reason, the reason of capturing the feeling of solitude, I keep returning to the paintings of Hopper for inspiration. I also seek to emulate the same mystery that lies in Hopper’s implied