Edward Hopper

Autoportrait, 1906

Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 – May 15, 1967) was a prominent American realist painter and printmaker. While most popularly known for his oil paintings, he was equally proficient as a watercolorist and printmaker in etching. In both his urban and rural scenes, his spare and finely calculated renderings reflected his personal vision of modern American life.

Formation: New York School of Art. Master: Robert Henri Artistic Movement: Naturalism and American scenes.

Most famous tables:Maison au bord de la voie ferrée (1925) Automate (1927) Chop Suey (1929)

Edward's paint was inspirateed by the 17th century (Vermeer, Rembrandt, Vélasquez), and by the 19th century (Goya, Manet, Daumier). The american artist liked the Edgar Degas' productions (compositions, proportions, lines, ...). Hopper was interrested in  Ralph Waldo Emerson's poems, but also in Carl Gustav Jung's and Sigmund Freud's theories.

Edward Hopper's tables were in inspiration source for the movie makers. Alfred Hitchock used La maison aux bord de la voix ferrée as model for the house of Psychose. And the scene of the table called Fenêtres la nuit inspirated the movie Fenêtres sur cour.

Sources: Wikipédia

The story takes place at the beginnin of the 2000's. The scence take place in a moneyless pub in the subburb of Glascow, in Scotland. Two girls are staying around a bar table. They are very, very old friends. One of these girl, called Nina, is quietly tallwith long blond hair attached with a poney-tail. The second girl, named Liz, is sitting in front of Liz. She looks like a ghost with her platinium hair, almost white, as her skin. A ponderous silence planes above the two girl ...

Ninan and Liz were placed in an orphanage when they were two years old. Their parents were doctor around the world and they died in the Massacre in the Rwanda, in 1992. They were refuged in a church to save little children when rebels and terrorists suprised then and kill them behind the church. At the time, Liz and Nina didn't understand what did it happened.

This two girls grown up in a poor orphanage in Glascow. But the life was very difficult due to drugs problems, delinquency and poverty. Liz and Nina didn't watch any happyness future. So, a day, Liz and Nina might six years old, Nina was placed in a host family, leaving Liz sad and  alone. It was a drama for littles girls ...

Meanwhile twelve years, Nina was studiying arts, litteratur and cinema. While Liz knew disasters of the street, alcool, strong drugs and prostitution. An hard life for a little and lost girl ...
But, after a long abscence, Nina reappeared. Now, she works in a little pub in Glascow, to continue to pay her studies. Liz, extremly moved, after a long "spinning", found her friend. She entered in Nina's pub and saw Nina, who was cleaning glasses.
"Hi, I want to speak to Nina Carter
- I'm Nina :). what do you want ?
Then, Liz cryed stringerful.
- Remelber ... I'm Liz ...
- LIZ !! Since all these time ... !
- I missed you Nina ..."

And, they talked all the night, to fest their reunion.

Comments

[B.A]

Good-lloking blog and serious work ! But you should really use a dictionary sometimes :inspirateed ? interrested ? "Paint" for "tableau" or "toile" ? Check and edit !