Edward Hopper @ Beyond comfort zone 人生的初期別太任性

第一次知道Edward Hopper是在老師的課堂上，社心主題談獨處與寂寞。
那時就留下印象，因為這些畫作瀰漫的氛圍。
讓我想到以前美史唸過Allan Poe的"The Man Of The Crowd"的情節感覺*

"disjointed loneliness of modernity"
"expressing the loneliness, vacuity, and stagnation of a large city"
"convey a mood of loneliness and desolation by their emptiness or by the presence of anonymous, non-communicating figures"
"the American way of life and a lament for what Hopper saw as its dismal emptiness"

"Edward Hopper painted American landscapes and cityscapes with a disturbing truth, expressing the world around him as a chilling, alienating, and often vacuous place. Everybody in a Hopper picture appears terribly alone."

"All the primary moods of classic film noire are present in Hopper’s paintings: melancholy, alienation, disillusionment, ambiguity, disenchantment, offering simply a moment of frozen time and leaving the viewer to embroider their own narrative.

Though his paintings seem frozen filmic fragments, they tell a complete story at the same time, mainly that of what it meant to be alive in the middle of the 20th century."

今天在誠品偶然又翻到。

說他的畫像攝影真是一點也不為過。