Comments on: Sally Mann, Edward Hopper, and museums http://pausetobegin.com/blog/2008/01/sally-mann-edward-hopper-and-museums/ Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:33:38 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: ZS http://pausetobegin.com/blog/2008/01/sally-mann-edward-hopper-and-museums/comment-page-1/#comment-58 ZS Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:26:13 +0000 http://pausetobegin.com/blog/2008/01/23/sally-mann-edward-hopper-and-museums/#comment-58 I'm with you, Tom... Hopper's color is spectacular. I never really paid attention to Hopper's work, solely based on the familiarity of it, and much to my discredit and loss. The implications of his work as maudlin came about through the wide dissemination of reproductions of his paintings... they are likely to be found in a dentist's office between a Norman Rockwell poster and office hours. Unfortunately, that how I knew his work best. Thank GOD I came to know his work a little better, Early Sunday Morning and Nighthawks are important to me... through the filters of others and through Hopper's direct work. I’m with you, Tom… Hopper’s color is spectacular. I never really paid attention to Hopper’s work, solely based on the familiarity of it, and much to my discredit and loss. The implications of his work as maudlin came about through the wide dissemination of reproductions of his paintings… they are likely to be found in a dentist’s office between a Norman Rockwell poster and office hours. Unfortunately, that how I knew his work best.

Thank GOD I came to know his work a little better, Early Sunday Morning and Nighthawks are important to me… through the filters of others and through Hopper’s direct work.

]]> By: Tom Starkweather http://pausetobegin.com/blog/2008/01/sally-mann-edward-hopper-and-museums/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Tom Starkweather Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:21:06 +0000 http://pausetobegin.com/blog/2008/01/23/sally-mann-edward-hopper-and-museums/#comment-9 Hopper's use of color is incredible, I'd never really seen an actual piece before that showing and after going to the gift shop at the National Gallery and seeing some shotty reproductions I realized how great the real deal was. There's something about the ambiguous and blank faces and lighting that I do see in some contemporary photographer's work. Hopper’s use of color is incredible, I’d never really seen an actual piece before that showing and after going to the gift shop at the National Gallery and seeing some shotty reproductions I realized how great the real deal was. There’s something about the ambiguous and blank faces and lighting that I do see in some contemporary photographer’s work.

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