Hopper: An American Love Story | movie | 2022 | Official Clip
Countless painters, photographers, filmmakers and musicians have been influenced by Hopper's art – but who was he, and | dG1femdiVVl0MDBMeFU
Transcript
00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:03 Hopper's New York is so silent it's almost eerie,
00:11 but it's almost welcoming in that it's
00:13 another vision of Manhattan.
00:17 His paintings' reaction to the city
00:19 are devoid of human presence, not what
00:22 we would expect at all.
00:24 By a realist American artist living in New York,
00:28 you're having realist American painters defining
00:32 what is a national experience through the figure,
00:36 through the evocation of technology,
00:38 the ways in which transformation can be cataloged,
00:42 shifting gender norms or class statuses
00:45 that one can achieve by living in the city
00:47 and making something of oneself.
00:50 Hopper disengages from that conversation.
00:54 We don't have the cacophony of the subway, of the voices,
00:57 of the peddlers on the street.
00:59 We don't have the crush of bodies.
01:01 We have an artist who is stripping out his canvases,
01:05 imagining a city that is very much of his own creation,
01:09 not doing anything any New Yorker urban artist is really
01:13 doing at this time.
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