| REVIEWER | RATING & REVIEW |
 | hotel283 (20)
01/15/2006 | Love his moodier stuff although the lighthouses and Cape Cod are certainly true Americana. I'm more impressed with "Approaching a City" with it's wonderful sense of anticipation, and especially the famous "Nighthawks" - they say he statrted painting it the day Pearl Harbor was attacked.
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 | Moosekarloff (22)
08/07/2003 | Very clean technique, very measured and toned colorist. I really like the silent and airless atmosphere he conveys, the palpable feeling of lonliness and alienation, the mirror he holds up to our contemporary world. The best known, but not necessarily the greatest, of the 20th century Precisionists, but in a way, he's different: this lies in his tendency to suggest something about the human condition and softpedal the mechanical problems of modern painting so heavily emphasized by other artists of his time.
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 | help me (0)
06/21/2003 | all of his paintings seem to describe me. we all could relate to it
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 | Solenoid DH (20)
02/28/2002 | When I was a child (lo, many years ago) I was looking through the World Book, under Art, and of all the illustrated paintings, I loved "Early Sunday Morning" the best. Since then, I have come to appreciate Hopper's ability to bring out emotion in lonely settings. It does seem curious that he rarely shows people, and when he does, they are often ugly and nearly always unhappy. I've seen much of his work by now in books & calendars I have bought, but still like that first picture the best.
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 | Errol (5)
02/26/2002 | He is one of my favorites. He could evoke a mood from his paintings more than most artists that I know of.
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 | Plumpbottom40 (0)
05/07/2001 | It would seem odd that a fan of Dali's fluid lines and Renoir's wisps would also be a fan of Hopper's stark lines and muted colors, but I can't help it! I am fascinated by "Nighthawks" (the painting of the four patrons in a diner during night). I could absolutely stare at that painting for hours. But it's not only his lines and colors that have captured my attention- Hopper paints the other side of American life. His work represents the loneliness and the ineffectualness of citizens in a growing, faceless society. He often would rather paint buildings than people, being better interested in architecture. Perhaps he was more aware of our changing society and knew that buildings were constant whereas people never were. Hopper gave us a glimpse of a simpler time when things were in actuality anything but.
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