New York Movie
Edward Hopper, 1939
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
I went to the National Gallery’s Hopper exhibit last weekend – it was crowded, hot, and really long. I had no idea so many Hoppers could be concentrated in one space. It was too substantial a retrospective for a single visit – about halfway though, I hit my art appreciation saturation point. Which might be why I saw the luscious red-and-green theatre scene above and immediately thought, Ok, so she’s stepping out to talk on her cell phone.
Ack! Have cell phones gotten that ubiquitous? Has the classic pose of the pensive thinker, head in chin, become merely the crook-necked giveaway of the inappropriately chatty?
I hope I was just tired. Really, really tired.
If you can’t make it to the National Gallery for your surfeit of Hopper, try this excellent Smithsonian website for an overview of his art and context.
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