Edward Hope, Morning at Cape Cod, 1950
A woman leaned forward from the bay window and stared somewhere to the right of the window—it was a lush forest.
The brush-brushed forest looks secluded and real, like some kind of eternity.
The woman in the painting can almost turn around and see it, but the viewer in front of the painting can intuitively see the thick green:
In "Morning at Cape Cod," Hope paints someone else, and what he wants to touch is actually us in front of him.
Edward Hope was born in Nyack, New York in 1882. He lived in an apartment in Washington Square for fifty years until his death in 1967.
This is a downright American otaku.
Edward Hope, Hodgkin's House, 1928
His themes—alienated people, automized individuals, inauspicious spaces—are all undertones of his time. He spent twenty years delving into mature art in his room, and finally created his own style: a kind of alienated stillness.
Edward Hope, Chairs on the Bus, 1956
Although known as a realist painter, Hope's style was more like a proper symbolism. His grasp of objectivity and subjectivity, the melancholy temperament displayed in his works, and especially the skillful depiction of light and shadow, make the viewer have an aesthetic impression of a long stream of fine water.
Edward Hope, Vending Machine, 1927
This intimacy felt from alienation, like a stone on a foot, a hidden pain that cannot be ignored.
Hope paints a lot of houses. I was impressed by almost every house: their windows were secluded, and there was hardly a single visible door, or rather, a door that wanted to invite people in.
Edward Hope, House in The Twilight, 1935
The owner in his painting is as distinctive as the house. Many people refer to him or her as "lonely" in the painting, but in fact, the person who can be alone in an empty house is actually not bad.
This is reminiscent of Samuel Beckett's famous quote:
"—I can't get by."
"—Delete the first sentence."
Edward Hope, Lonely Nights, 1957
Hope is like a nail, once you have seen his painting, it will always stay in front of your eyes, deep into your mind. This profundity does not come from real or delicate observation, but from a style.
Edward Hope, New York Office, 1967
Hope is smart. In 1933, he said: "I tried to present my feelings in the most pleasant and impressive form. ”
Hope stayed at home more than just practicing drawing. In fact, he was very knowledgeable and repeatedly read nineteenth-century German and French poetry throughout his life. He frantically absorbed the nutrients of European romanticism and symbolism, yet stripped it of any similarities to his style.
This otaku has a wife.
Hope's wife, Josephine Nivison, was also a painter, and they fell in love as students in 1905, married in 1924, and after marriage, became a symbiotic whole. Nevison oversees the details of Hope's paintings and becomes Hope's only model.
Edward Hope's wife, Josephine Neveson
Hope and Nevison's marriage was tense and creative, and Nevison once joked:
"Talking to Hope is like throwing a rock into a well, and you wait to hear the echo of it hitting the bottom of the well, only to find out later that it's a futile effort."
Hope's paintings have light.
Edward Hope, The Morning Sun, 1952
Light does not replace or occupy the existence of other things, but it is omnipresent. Like thoughts, like emotions, you pay attention to it and it works.
Think big and deep, and you will see the sun that shines brightly;
Emotions are paid attention and kindness, and you can feel the glimmer of harmony.
Edward Hope, Brooklyn's Room, 1932
In the enclosed environment, everyone waits like Hope's painting. This waiting wanders in the slowly rising inner darkness, or in the empty nest of emptiness and alienation of thought, like a soul detached from the body.
In any case, the "sun in an empty room" also illuminates another dimension: emptiness is the condition for receiving light. Waiting is also a kind of preparation, a kind of suspension, a kind of planning, a kind of recuperation.
Edward Hope, "Room by the Sea"
In stillness, wait for time, listen to the light: "The light shines in the darkness, whether the darkness welcomes it or not." ”
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