Edward Hopper was born on July 22, 1882 in Nyack, New York, a peaceful.town 25 miles north of New York City. Much of his artwork has been based on loneliness and depression. Hopper's drawings of the urban landscape of Paris, described the nature of the urban sprawl and its dislocating effects on people. In his rare and important early works of Parisian life, he began his lifelong project of portraying humans detached from nature and society.
What I thought was particuarly intresting about Hopper for my exhibtion, was that there is no communication in Hopper's work. The characters in his paintings are silent, their lips do not move. The characters indicate that they are very detatched .
His drawing, The Suicide shows how this character is struggling for the will to live, and has now given in, making you wonder what had led the person to do this.
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