Hopper: a puertas cerradas

Nighthhawks ha sido uno de los cuadros que este año tuvo un mayor impacto emocional en mi. Pero más lo disfruté habiendo leído la pequeña referencia que lo acompaña normalmente en el Art Institute de Chicago:

Edward Hopper said that Nighthawks was inspired by "a restaurant on New York's Greenwich Avenue where two streets meet," but the image, with its carefully constructed composition and lack of narrative, has a timeless quality that transcends its particular locale. One of the best-known images of 20th-century art, the painting depicts an all-night diner in which three customers, all lost in their own thoughts, have congregated. Fluorescent lights had just come into use in the early 1940s, and the all-night diner emits an eerie glow, like a beacon on the dark street corner. Hopper eliminated any reference to an entrance, and the viewer, drawn to the light, is shut out from the scene by a seamless wedge of glass. The four anonymous and uncommunicative night owls seem as separate and remote from the viewer as they are from one another.

Es, además, muy fructífero poner a esta obra como punto de partida para recorrer la obra de Edward Hopper. Recomiendo detenerse en Gas y, sobre todo, en House by the railroad, que viene acompañada de un texto crítico. ...SEGUIR LEYENDO...