Edward Hopper

I went to see the National Gallery's Edward Hopper exhibit yesterday, and it turns out they have some pretty cool multimedia features available on the website.

Other Hopper notes include the observation that he has a real knack for almost exclusively painting places I've been, and that despite earlier mixed feelings about the album, In Rainbows was an excellent soundtrack for walking around the gallery.

Comments

In Rainbows rocks

Posted by tommy | October 13, 2007 1:52 PM

In Rainbows was an excellent soundtrack for walking around the gallery.

You mean, that neither was worth paying for?

Posted by Kill | October 13, 2007 2:22 PM

Art minor, eh, Yglesias?

Posted by Anderson | October 13, 2007 3:08 PM

Art minor, eh, Yglesias?

You hardly need an art minor from Harvard to appreciate Edward Hopper. In a century where a fairly extensive theoretical grounding was required to understand any of the major movements in art, Hopper managed to produce an entire career's worth of subtle and evocative painting that was--and remains-- completely comprehensible to the layman.

Posted by James Gary | October 13, 2007 4:42 PM

You hardly need an art minor from Harvard to appreciate Edward Hopper.

Sorry to be so enigmatic in my snark, but we gleaned 3 things from MY's post:

(1) Cool multimedia website;

(2) Hey, I've been there;

(3) In Rainbows is a good musical accompaniment.

Things we learned about Hopper, or about MY's aesthetic response thereto: zero.

So, maybe it doesn't take an art minor, but what it *does* take remains a mystery.

Posted by Anderson | October 13, 2007 4:48 PM

Things we learned about Hopper, or about MY's aesthetic response thereto: zero.

Oh, I see. My comment actually looks pretty patronizing in that context.

(I always try to be supportive when Matt ventures to write about arts-n-leisure stuff that seems, to me, to possess some real intellectual weight. Unfortunately, it looks like he's followed it up with yet another Feist Post.)

Posted by James Gary | October 13, 2007 5:02 PM

My comment actually looks pretty patronizing in that context

Patronizing comments are *my* beat. Find another corner, mister! ;)

Posted by Anderson | October 13, 2007 5:45 PM

I like that fellow's work.

He was significantly Dutch, and a cousin.

Posted by Linus | October 14, 2007 10:56 AM

there's no doubt about it. Hopper is under appreciated.

Posted by thehova | October 14, 2007 8:43 PM