Robert Hughes - American Visions - Episode 6 (part 3/5)

"Steamlines and Breadlines"

end of the segment on Jacob Lawrence.

Edward Hopper - "...the greatest American artist of the 1930 didn't paint collective experience"

interview with Brian O'Doherty, friend of Edward Hopper

Stuart Davis - "He caught the visual punch of the American street, with it's signs and life imagined at jazz temper"

inteview with artist Jack Levine on modernism

link below to playlist of all "American Vision" episodes:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=DF4A4CCB9DB13FEF

originally aired on US television in 1997

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[2210gio]

Good observations ladster3

But I am also cannot figure a more appropriate style for what he wanted to represent in his paintings by depicting the harshness (and squalor) of some city life.

[ladster3]

Hopper was a great artist, but a rather bland painter. He once said "Painting is hard work" & it shows. He also said he was only interested in painting light," but there wasn't a hint of impressionist sparkle in his work. Instead, his forms, particularly flesh, were harsh and streaky.

I used to attribute this stark technique to his illustrator's background. But, upon thinking about it, I can't imagine how else he could have painted it.

[carsanookdotcom]

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