The world as seen by "autistic" people
Have you ever been hit by a painting and got goosebumps all over your body, and the first time you brought me this total experience was not Van Gogh's Starry Night, nor Monet's Water Lilies, but a painting that is not very famous, and I can guarantee that when you see this artist's painting, you will have a general feeling, that is, every person he paints seems to be myself.
I came across a painting of "Hotel Room" five or six years ago when I was buying a picture album in the small white building of Central America, and the moment I saw this painting, I was struck by the mood of silence and loneliness in the painting! A woman sitting on the edge of the bed in the hotel looked down at a piece of paper in her hand, probably just arrived in the room, so the luggage was not opened, although I could not see her gaze and expression, but I seemed to be particularly able to feel the helplessness and tiredness of the woman in the painting. I forwarded this painting to many female friends around me, and everyone seems to be able to see themselves in this painting for a certain moment.
Later, I looked through the other works of this painter, and I was amazed to find that this painter had painted all the loneliness and anxiety in our hearts today more than 100 years ago, so I strongly recommend this artist (Edward Hope) to everyone.
You will find that Hope's paintings in the city is always empty, there is no particularly gorgeous scene, some are just some expressionless and depressed people, as if each of his pictures can accurately capture the loneliest person in the city, and each of us in his works is seated, such as you may once sit alone in a café and wait for a person who will never appear, you may almost miss the last subway in the empty carriage empty and dazed, you may also once eat with friends in the most prosperous Internet celebrity restaurant, Despite the people around you, you have nothing to say.
Most of Hope's works show the United States in the 1920s, when just after the end of World War I, everyone ran to the big city to pursue the American dream, have you found that the scenes in Hope's paintings are exactly the same as the era we are in today, the same is the high-speed economic development of the society, the same material enrichment, young people left their hometowns and poured into the city, we quickly gathered into a "stranger society", where colleagues can become strangers without any intersection, Here we seem to have to work hard to ensure that we are not left behind, it seems that we have brought each other closer through social tools, but in fact, we are living as an island.
It reminds me of a painting that Hope painted when he was 9 years old: a small man with his hands behind his back facing the sea and there was no one around, the little boy in the painting slightly bowed his head as if he was thoughtful, and as if he was lost, we can't see his expression but we can feel his loneliness, and people who may live in big cities can only live as the lonely big child in the painting for the rest of their lives.
