Boy, his attitude toward his wife sure puts his talents into a broader perspective... It echoes with what I've read about the composer Mahler, who demanded his wife give up her own composing. :^/
I don't see loneliness everywhere as much as the narration proposes. I see still life, but of places and people, not a table with food or flowers. Disconnection, which to me looks like a form of keen observation without emotion or prejudice. They all have the sense of observing without the awareness of the observed. One can be alone without being lonely, just quiet and focused on the moment at hand. A subjects appear as involved in their own thoughts and actions without despair.
A very good point. You went beyond the typical loneliness interpretation, into an awareness. And perhaps it is an awareness of mortality, or a questioning of life, but without emotional hand-wringing. There is a heightened awareness to life in Hopper's beautiful, engaging work, as each moment is recorded before it disappears forever..
I happened to be in Chicago for a week while Hopper's collection was featured at the Art Instiute. It was already a lonely time for me, so far away from my young active family. The poignancy on his canvases spoke to me more than touring the Rijksmuseam or the Louvre with my dear wife alongside years later.
Great video - I'm struck more deeply now , by Hopper's brilliant talent .... wow , what powerfully silent images , just beautiful, quiet, trancelike , contemplative . Hopper , a brilliant artist ..... much thanks ....☺️
I so love Hopper. Our local museum has one of his larger pieces. Its breathtaking. It's not the realism. It's a strange hyper-realism that I've only experienced while on Magic Mushrooms (Golden Teacher)
I have a coffee table book on Hopper's works. Before I have even heard of him, I used to draw water tanks and other things you would find atop a building, though without even a fraction of his talent.
a brilliant video of the artist and his art. one of the greatest American artists. thank you for creating this excellent history. zen billings in canada
High contrast between darks and lights is a characteristic of North American painting, it seems to reflect the harsh winters, the whites of snow and black of trees.
Before I was aware of this Edward Hopper (my father was also Edward Hopper) I painted some geometric/architectural pictures with sharp side lighting during my A level art course. Sixty years later, and with a great deal more knowledge of the man, I have tried some pictures in his style….. and even sold a few with my name on them. Maurice Hopper - no family connection other than the name!!
That's so cool! Are you sure you aren't related? Have you done any research into your families backgrounds? Maybe it's further back. I hope you are related somewhere down the line because that's such a great connection!
The set for Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 film "Rear Window" was indeed influenced by Edward Hopper's paintings, particularly in terms of visual style, themes of urban isolation, and the voyeuristic gaze. Hitchcock adopted the framing of paintings like Hopper’s Automat (1927), Night Windows (1928), Hotel Room (1931), and Room in New York (1932) for shots of Rear Window’s scenes. The tension and spectacle in "Rear Window" relied on what was obscured or unseen, similar to the power of exclusion in Hopper’s paintings
Dear Mr Farti facts I am a Brit and I am an actor What an irony you have bequeathed us. Superb art work described by a machine. Cheaper than an actor-? but most actors are human nevertheless.
Unfortunately, its a sign of the times. I can't afford an actor to narrate my videos, but I can use AI voice, and the quality of the narration is improving all the time. Check out my latest video, Art and Poetry, which uses five different voices. ruclips.net/video/0dGoF1ZjEx4/видео.html
How wonderfully narrated this is. The pace that was spoken was at a perfect tempo and I enjoyed the illustrations been shown for several moments giving me time to take in the pictures.
I think the interpretations of these paintings in this doc film is, at times, a bit much. Hopper himself, as is mentioned, was not necessarily trying to convey a statement or message with his work. I have been the artistic sort my whole life, inheriting the impulse to create from my mother, who was an artist and musician. One day years ago, I was painting at a recreation and parks facility in Columbus, OH, where there was a building that was expressly used for the creation of art. One of the other painters noticed my oil painting, which I copied from a photo I had taken some years earlier of an abandoned barn in a wheat field in Washington state. He said that the work reminded him of Edward Hopper. Never having heard of Hopper, I looked him up and immediately liked his paintings. I couldn't believe I'd never heard of him. Anyway, he deserves his spot as being icon among American artists!
One who carries traditional Greek elit spirit in the modern world...For lots of introverts, arts most time unveil them more than words. It is pretty interesting from the view of an outside world(eastern culture), beyond like or dislike, they are here as themself always...😄
Always been fascinated with "Nighthawks" before learning anything else about Edward Hopper. I've studied this painting many times before now, but this time I discovered one small "spacial" mistake (which by no means detracts from the artistic value of this artwork). That is, the elbow of the man sitting alone clips from view a corner of the coffee cup next to him. However, the perspective in the scene places the cup closer to the viewer than the man's elbow, meaning that the cup should clip part of the elbow rather than the elbow clipping part of the cup. Another minor point is that cigarette smoking culture was still in high swing in 1942, and conveniently placed ash trays were common even in eating establishments, however, the man with a cigarette in his hand has no ash tray nearby.
When I was young and just getting started in my painting , being a draftsman, I studied Wyeth, Hopper, frank Frazetta , and Julie Bell. I loved figure painting and illustration. I also loved Rockwell. I was in my late teens and had a crisp , sharp style but not much on color. For me it was the line.
To me, now that I've seen the video, it seems that he was a painter of urban still lives with lonely figures in them, who was interested in the interplay of lights. Somehow, it reminds me of the Italian introspective still life painter Morandi and the Dutch painter Vermeer. A thoughts provoking artist, though his paintins give me a sort of anguish.
Edward Hopper and Giorgio Morandi, though different in their subject matter and emotional tone, share some similarities in their works. Both artists excelled in etching, painting, and watercolor, and pursued individualistic ways of seeing, making their works easily recognizable. Hopper's work is characterized by remoteness, melancholia, isolation, and alienation, while Morandi's work is filled with relationships, emotions, warmth, and tenderness. Both artists worked outside mainstream movements and produced quiet, poetic works.
I think that all documentaries should have narrators from England. They sound so professorial. You just have to assume that they know what they're talking about. /s A person with a proper English accent could say something like "The golden retriever is the most feared of the animals in the forest. It is given a wide berth by all of the other predators, even the very largest sloths. The reason being that they're well-documented to use armed humans to settle their scores, and with horrific results that can only be achieved by the Golden Retriever." And an undergrad in NYU would put that in a term paper.
All AI generated using the text: "1940s artist, Edward Hopper surrounded by paint pots and brushes wide angle view from below in lonely room digital art abstract style depicting loneliness and depression".
I'm a non-professional artist, coming from a long line of artists (my father is a landscape painter, his mother (my grandmother) was an art teacher, a great-aunt was also an artist, and some of my brothers and sisters as well are talented). When I was in my Advanced Placement art class in high school and later on in college, I remember disliking Edward Hopper's paintings. At the time I was only seeing his more famous, popular ones with the alienated seeming people in them, and I guess that's why I didn't like them because of the feeling of loneliness, alienation, and even in the choice of colors -- coldness. Overall, I didn't have good experiences in school as my family moved often and I was always having to start over, so perhaps this also had something to do with my dislike. I always preferred the bright, usually warm, inviting paintings of the Impressionists (who, to this day are still my favorite). However, as I've gotten older and learned more about Edward Hopper and have also searched for more of his paintings, I can now say that I definitely very much admire his work and understand and appreciate the messages in them. I especially like the colors he worked with, because even though they have a cool tonality/hue to them, they are also serene and calming as well as nostalgic. I am so grateful that we can now find these wonderful biographical documentaries with high quality photos of these artists who we all admire.
It is America - no more no less - just America - this is the American brain working - this is how Americans see the world and themselves then and now - just so peanut butter and jelly - the average America culture.
The Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center has held exhibitions featuring her work, including "Josephine Nivison Hopper: Edward’s Muse". This exhibition was extended due to overwhelming interest from scholars, critics, and visitors. Her work has also been displayed at the Whitney Museum of American Art. The museum has held exhibitions featuring both Josephine and her husband, Edward Hopper, as early as 1921 and intermittently until 1953.
Hopper will be remembered for centuries to come - not so much most of the connected NYC trendy 'ab - expressionists' (with the exception Jackson Pollock.
Of course, Nighthawks may be his most famous work, but somany others like GasStation, homes and coastal places,light house are equally good. My favorite is, Corner Office. Picasos work in cubism gave people the idea he was not skilled at normal painting. He was as good as the old masters. I hate cubism. Hoppers evocation of lonely places hits home with me.
The Whitney Museum of American Art received a significant bequest of artworks from Josephine Nivison Hopper. This bequest remains the largest single gift of artwork in the Whitney’s history and represents the greatest concentration of work by any artist in the Museum’s collection. The Museum did not sell off Josephine Nivison Hopper's paintings, and the artworks she bequeathed to the museum remain a part of its collection.
Hopper has long been my favorite American artist but I have to say that in this video the use of AI - if I'm not mistaken - as narrator was deeply jarring and even cast a pall on my infatuation with this artist's work. I waited for credits but there didn't seem to be any so I'm assuming my assumption is correct?
Thank you for your reply. But no it was not the accent. There are certain patterns of AI elocution which are at least at this point pretty detectable. That is what caught my ear so to speak. But it's possible that a softer slower voice would have been more relevant to this particular artist.
don't love the AI narrator. unless it's actually a person, but i doubt it. inflections are off. but of course, Hopper was incredible and it's great to have this overview.
Wyeth achieved acclaim in the 1940s to the 1960s, but opinions on his reputation as an artist are polarised. Hopper, on the other hand appears to have had more influence on art and popular culture.🙂
@@arti-facts-4u ...Missing the point. I have a view of Hopper's work, but I don't then issue it as a you-tube video. When someone says, 'it's as if', regarding his work, then we are entering into interpretation, and that is something entirely personal and contentious. The video would have been better if it had kept to the actual circumstances of Hopper's life and works. Robert, uk.
@@arti-facts-4u ....Thanks for replying. I should have added that aside for the moments where you offered personal analysis of Hooper's material, you did a sterling job of bringing together everything one would want to know about the man and his life. Leave the arty stuff to art critics, who frankly often do twaddle on pretentiously, leaving no-one the wiser (in my opinion, ha ha). Robert, uk
I don't know why you say that. The house that is said to have inspired the painting is a Second Empire style Victorian mansion in Haverstraw, New York, where it still stands today.
I thought the robot voice was ok. Can’t pronounce a few words like Nyack correctly. Big deal. I do wonder why RUclips creators don’t think their own voice is good enough. The content is very good, although asan engineer by training, i roll my eyes at some of the psychological projections made. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Wasn’t aware of Hoppers history of etchings.
Did a robot write this piece? If not then why the AI voice? What does it add? Extra artificiality? I am not a robot. Edward Hopper was not a robot. No one I know is a robot. So why lay robotic voices on us? What have we done to deserve this? It’s not as if a human being couldn’t do this job. If we as humans turn a blind ear to this sort of thing then before long we will have robots singing hymns and doing crochet.
He was jealous of HER terrible amateur paintings ? I doubt that very much, She may have studied with Robert Henri but There was no comparison between Edwards work and Josephine’s work she was an amateur painter at best…
Jo Nivison Hopper was a successful artist in her own right before she married Edward Hopper. Her work had been shown alongside that of renowned artists such as Modigliani and Picasso, and she regularly sold drawings to prominent publications. There are differing opinions on the quality of her art. Some critics have praised her watercolors, describing them as superb, and expressing her "cheery" worldview. However, there are also accounts of fairly negative responses when she showed her work to gallerists or collectors later in life. In recent years, there has been a renewed interest in her work, and she is being rediscovered as an artistic force in her own right.
I guess I'm "that guy" today. Really didn't like the video. The text-to-speech narration is an odd, synthetic, inhuman way to narrate an art video, distracting and sometimes annoying. The continuous jumping back and forth to works from different time periods made it hard to get a direct feeling for how is art evolved. Most troublesome was your insisting on making up your own explanations for what is going on in the artwork (and sometimes weak, often debatable ones at that) in spite of the actual artist who did the work saying there is no story, the picture is what it is. Yet you must impose your vision as some sort of meta-truth that even Hopper may have not been aware of. And the cliche "current day" negative judgements on people and times that were different.
It is distressing to hear this from a robot, especially when there are hundreds of actors out of work who would gladly have done this.
Especially when it mispronounces Robert Henri as " Henry", not ""hen-RI".
A robot? Are you sure about that?
The narrator’s British accent seems to bother some listeners. One viewer thinks it’s a robot. (Then again, you never know these days)
@@jenna2431 She’s British.
@@robertsantana3261 British people can pronounce names correctly.
The outpouring of love for the artist is truly amazing. Hopper is a true American creation and a treasure for the nation.
The voice is not Distressing. Most of us are here because we are interested in the subject.
Great vid.
I agree!
Boy, his attitude toward his wife sure puts his talents into a broader perspective... It echoes with what I've read about the composer Mahler, who demanded his wife give up her own composing. :^/
And Max Beckmann.
ruclips.net/video/H-jSUekYFBo/видео.html
And F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. @@arti-facts-4u
I don't see loneliness everywhere as much as the narration proposes. I see still life, but of places and people, not a table with food or flowers. Disconnection, which to me looks like a form of keen observation without emotion or prejudice. They all have the sense of observing without the awareness of the observed. One can be alone without being lonely, just quiet and focused on the moment at hand. A subjects appear as involved in their own thoughts and actions without despair.
A very good point. You went beyond the typical loneliness interpretation, into an awareness. And perhaps it is an awareness of mortality, or a questioning of life, but without emotional hand-wringing. There is a heightened awareness to life in Hopper's beautiful, engaging work, as each moment is recorded before it disappears forever..
Beautiful narrative and choice of images.
Glad you enjoyed it
He sure didn't do Josephine any favors, marrying her. She did so much for him, and he treated her like crap.
I agree.
Brilliant documentary of one of my favourite artists, I particularly love his watercolours he did of houses in New England
I happened to be in Chicago for a week while Hopper's collection was featured at the Art Instiute. It was already a lonely time for me, so far away from my young active family. The poignancy on his canvases spoke to me more than touring the Rijksmuseam or the Louvre with my dear wife alongside years later.
I can learn a lot from Hopper's technique. This video is a good format to study his work.
Vitality sums up his art perfectly.
It was a team effort with his wife, as his last painting indicated. Wonderful doco. Thankyou.
Great in-depth documentary. Fascinating to see the journey it took Hopper to finally arrive at the style he is known for.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I enjoyed this presentation. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great video - I'm struck more deeply now , by Hopper's brilliant talent .... wow , what powerfully silent images , just beautiful, quiet, trancelike , contemplative . Hopper , a brilliant artist ..... much thanks ....☺️
Glad you enjoyed it
I so love Hopper. Our local museum has one of his larger pieces. Its breathtaking. It's not the realism. It's a strange hyper-realism that I've only experienced while on Magic Mushrooms (Golden Teacher)
Another excellent video. Subscribed !
Glad you enjoyed it.
I just learned something today. Never watch a video about Edward Hopper's work when you're already depressed.
You need something to cheer you up. Have a look at Andy Warhol:
ruclips.net/video/6JRzk-hAqxk/видео.html
I have a coffee table book on Hopper's works. Before I have even heard of him, I used to draw water tanks and other things you would find atop a building, though without even a fraction of his talent.
a brilliant video of the artist and his art. one of the greatest American artists. thank you for creating this excellent history. zen billings in canada
Who knew? Thank you for expanding my knowledge of this great artist.
My pleasure!
I very much enjoyed this, the nicely curated art and photography and the narrative of his life.
High contrast between darks and lights is a characteristic of North American painting, it seems to reflect the harsh winters, the whites of snow and black of trees.
Particularly in prints made from etchings, as in this case.
Before I was aware of this Edward Hopper (my father was also Edward Hopper) I painted some geometric/architectural pictures with sharp side lighting during my A level art course. Sixty years later, and with a great deal more knowledge of the man, I have tried some pictures in his style….. and even sold a few with my name on them. Maurice Hopper - no family connection other than the name!!
That's so cool! Are you sure you aren't related? Have you done any research into your families backgrounds? Maybe it's further back. I hope you are related somewhere down the line because that's such a great connection!
Wonderful presentation!
Many thanks!
Rear window set seems inspired by Hooper too
The set for Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 film "Rear Window" was indeed influenced by Edward Hopper's paintings, particularly in terms of visual style, themes of urban isolation, and the voyeuristic gaze.
Hitchcock adopted the framing of paintings like Hopper’s Automat (1927), Night Windows (1928), Hotel Room (1931), and Room in New York (1932) for shots of Rear Window’s scenes.
The tension and spectacle in "Rear Window" relied on what was obscured or unseen, similar to the power of exclusion in Hopper’s paintings
One of my favorite artists. Great documentary.
Glad you enjoyed it
Dear Mr Farti facts
I am a Brit and I am an actor
What an irony you have bequeathed us. Superb art work described by a machine.
Cheaper than an actor-? but most actors are human nevertheless.
Unfortunately, its a sign of the times. I can't afford an actor to narrate my videos, but I can use AI voice, and the quality of the narration is improving all the time. Check out my latest video, Art and Poetry, which uses five different voices.
ruclips.net/video/0dGoF1ZjEx4/видео.html
I thoroughly enjoyed the entire presentation, thank you
Glad you enjoyed it!
I look forward to enjoying your other documentaries.
How wonderfully narrated this is. The pace that was spoken was at a perfect tempo and I enjoyed the illustrations been shown for several moments giving me time to take in the pictures.
It's narrated by AI. Can't you hear that?
I actually hit the pause button during this several time so I can get a really good look at the paintings then continue on in the video!
@@honda3808 or just turn the sound completely off and read the subtitles. The writing is not bad and is mostly accurate.
I enjoyed this.
Thank you.
Thanks so much for posting
Very informative and insightful! Thanks so much!
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks and keep up the good work.
His work is so liminal, there is a real sense of you being held in a surreal void when looking at his work!
My favorite figurative artist!
Love the content. Thanks.
Thanks for watching!
Thoroughly interesting
I really enjoyed this. Will there be a Van Gogh video in the series?
Could be!
I enjoyed the narration. 🏴
Thanks, well done!
I think the interpretations of these paintings in this doc film is, at times, a bit much. Hopper himself, as is mentioned, was not necessarily trying to convey a statement or message with his work.
I have been the artistic sort my whole life, inheriting the impulse to create from my mother, who was an artist and musician. One day years ago, I was painting at a recreation and parks facility in Columbus, OH, where there was a building that was expressly used for the creation of art. One of the other painters noticed my oil painting, which I copied from a photo I had taken some years earlier of an abandoned barn in a wheat field in Washington state. He said that the work reminded him of Edward Hopper. Never having heard of Hopper, I looked him up and immediately liked his paintings. I couldn't believe I'd never heard of him. Anyway, he deserves his spot as being icon among American artists!
He is indeed an icon.
Well done , very interesting, one of my fav ❤ thanks a lot
Glad you enjoyed it! 😊
@@arti-facts-4u 😀🥰
Thanks, I enjoyed this very much!
You might like this link to Josephine Hopper's paintings.
news.artnet.com/art-world/jo-nivison-hopper-2086277
@@arti-facts-4u Thank you!
Thank you. 🌿
Beautiful.
Thank you!
Great video & I love the narrator’s voice 😊
Thank you! 😃
Wonderful documentary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I´ve always loved his work but was sorry to hear about him stifling Jo´s. Whatever happened to her paintings?
She donated them to the Whitney.
@@arti-facts-4u thank you
One who carries traditional Greek elit spirit in the modern world...For lots of introverts, arts most time unveil them more than words. It is pretty interesting from the view of an outside world(eastern culture), beyond like or dislike, they are here as themself always...😄
Always been fascinated with "Nighthawks" before learning anything else about Edward Hopper. I've studied this painting many times before now, but this time I discovered one small "spacial" mistake (which by no means detracts from the artistic value of this artwork). That is, the elbow of the man sitting alone clips from view a corner of the coffee cup next to him. However, the perspective in the scene places the cup closer to the viewer than the man's elbow, meaning that the cup should clip part of the elbow rather than the elbow clipping part of the cup. Another minor point is that cigarette smoking culture was still in high swing in 1942, and conveniently placed ash trays were common even in eating establishments, however, the man with a cigarette in his hand has no ash tray nearby.
Well spotted.
So his work is not a camera.
Correct.@@rogerreed3911
Good!
Are you a detective or a forensic investigator? These pictures, like much visual art, are impressions, not photographs. Best wishes.
Great video!
Glad you enjoyed it
As someone who has had a lifelong interest in art, for what that is worth, I have always had an interest in, and admiration for, hopper.
When I was young and just getting started in my painting , being a draftsman, I studied Wyeth, Hopper, frank Frazetta , and Julie Bell. I loved figure painting and illustration. I also loved Rockwell.
I was in my late teens and had a crisp , sharp style but not much on color. For me it was the line.
Thanks for sharing!
Frazetta was the man.
This man painted the way Shirley Jackson wrote: hauntingly.
To me, now that I've seen the video, it seems that he was a painter of urban still lives with lonely figures in them, who was interested in the interplay of lights.
Somehow, it reminds me of the Italian introspective still life painter Morandi and the Dutch painter Vermeer.
A thoughts provoking artist, though his paintins give me a sort of anguish.
Edward Hopper and Giorgio Morandi, though different in their subject matter and emotional tone, share some similarities in their works. Both artists excelled in etching, painting, and watercolor, and pursued individualistic ways of seeing, making their works easily recognizable.
Hopper's work is characterized by remoteness, melancholia, isolation, and alienation, while Morandi's work is filled with relationships, emotions, warmth, and tenderness.
Both artists worked outside mainstream movements and produced quiet, poetic works.
It's REALLY TOO BAD Hopper was so insecure, and how horribly he treated his wife. I Went to a show of his in Seattle at a Museum
Nice review. I hate it though when a reviewer presumes to know about a person's intimate life...having never really met them.
There's plenty of information on the internet on his personal life from people who did know him.
Un poète des solitudes baignées dans de douces lignes. L'iréel crée le réel.
Absolument magnifique ! ❤
Je suis heureux que vous l'ayez apprécié.
At least the script is edited so a computer can narrate it.
I think that all documentaries should have narrators from England. They sound so professorial. You just have to assume that they know what they're talking about. /s
A person with a proper English accent could say something like "The golden retriever is the most feared of the animals in the forest. It is given a wide berth by all of the other predators, even the very largest sloths. The reason being that they're well-documented to use armed humans to settle their scores, and with horrific results that can only be achieved by the Golden Retriever." And an undergrad in NYU would put that in a term paper.
Well said!
You mean an AI with a proper English accent!
So who painted the four Hopper-ish paintings that open this awesome history? Well done! Were they painted in oil, or in Photoshop or Painter?
All AI generated using the text: "1940s artist, Edward Hopper surrounded by paint pots and brushes wide angle view from below in lonely room digital art abstract style depicting loneliness and depression".
Wow! I'm flabbergasted! Can you tell me which AI and where I need to go to get it?@@arti-facts-4u
Go to new Microsoft Bing and click on Image Creator in the right-hand list of icons.
That is more depressing than any Hopper painting could ever be. @@arti-facts-4u
Love 🙏❤️🍀🍂🍁
Glad you liked it.😊
I'm a non-professional artist, coming from a long line of artists (my father is a landscape painter, his mother (my grandmother) was an art teacher, a great-aunt was also an artist, and some of my brothers and sisters as well are talented). When I was in my Advanced Placement art class in high school and later on in college, I remember disliking Edward Hopper's paintings. At the time I was only seeing his more famous, popular ones with the alienated seeming people in them, and I guess that's why I didn't like them because of the feeling of loneliness, alienation, and even in the choice of colors -- coldness. Overall, I didn't have good experiences in school as my family moved often and I was always having to start over, so perhaps this also had something to do with my dislike. I always preferred the bright, usually warm, inviting paintings of the Impressionists (who, to this day are still my favorite). However, as I've gotten older and learned more about Edward Hopper and have also searched for more of his paintings, I can now say that I definitely very much admire his work and understand and appreciate the messages in them. I especially like the colors he worked with, because even though they have a cool tonality/hue to them, they are also serene and calming as well as nostalgic. I am so grateful that we can now find these wonderful biographical documentaries with high quality photos of these artists who we all admire.
Glad you enjoyed it.
It is America - no more no less - just America - this is the American brain working - this is how Americans see the world and themselves then and now - just so peanut butter and jelly - the average America culture.
House - symbol for Self, Ego. No wonder he painted them as he was so insecure viz 51mins into this video!
A little disappointed that the House on the Railroad wasn't pointed out as Hopper editing half the house out. That's just so Hopper to do that.
very well made. robot voice is the only downside. the robot voice tech is disappointing, but it has improved and is getting better.
Glad you liked the content.
Where is a documentary on Josephine Hopper’s work?
Where can we see her work?
The Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center has held exhibitions featuring her work, including "Josephine Nivison Hopper: Edward’s Muse". This exhibition was extended due to overwhelming interest from scholars, critics, and visitors.
Her work has also been displayed at the Whitney Museum of American Art. The museum has held exhibitions featuring both Josephine and her husband, Edward Hopper, as early as 1921 and intermittently until 1953.
Hopper will be remembered for centuries to come - not so much most of the connected NYC trendy 'ab - expressionists' (with the exception Jackson Pollock.
I agree, except I believe Pollock will be mostly forgotten by the 22 century.
Informative and full of images I had never seen. Begs the question, was Hoppe autistic/Asperger's? His treatment of his wife was appalling.
I think he was just introverted.
for 1923 I think that would have been expected of a wife to take on that traditional work as part of the relationship.
Yes, but so unfair. And it continues today.
@@arti-facts-4uthere's a whole spectrum of autism. His "introversion" could have been part of it ...
His art has a feel of "noire" films. Mysterious people.
PLEASE DO ONE ON AMERICAN ARTIST KENNY SCHARF!!!!!!!!
Anything's possible.
The work I see here is more impressionistic than realistic.
The narrator is a robot, no question.
Of course, Nighthawks may be his most famous work, but somany others like GasStation, homes and coastal places,light house are equally good. My favorite is, Corner Office. Picasos work in cubism gave people the idea he was not skilled at normal painting. He was as good as the old masters. I hate cubism. Hoppers evocation of lonely places hits home with me.
If there ever was an artist who got WORSE in their technique.
Some of his painted houses remind me of the home of Norman Bates and his mummified mother´s...("Psycho")
the Whitney Museum took the gift from Joan of both their paintings only to deaquistion Joan's paintings
The Whitney Museum of American Art received a significant bequest of artworks from Josephine Nivison Hopper. This bequest remains the largest single gift of artwork in the Whitney’s history and represents the greatest concentration of work by any artist in the Museum’s collection. The Museum did not sell off Josephine Nivison Hopper's paintings, and the artworks she bequeathed to the museum remain a part of its collection.
Hopper has long been my favorite American artist but I have to say that in this video the use of AI - if I'm not mistaken - as narrator was deeply jarring and even cast a pall on my infatuation with this artist's work. I waited for credits but there didn't seem to be any so I'm assuming my assumption is correct?
The voice-over uses a text to speech AI and a British accent. Is it the accent you don't like?
Thank you for your reply. But no it was not the accent. There are certain patterns of AI elocution which are at least at this point pretty detectable. That is what caught my ear so to speak. But it's possible that a softer slower voice would have been more relevant to this particular artist.
don't love the AI narrator. unless it's actually a person, but i doubt it. inflections are off. but of course, Hopper was incredible and it's great to have this overview.
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The most important 20th Century American realist painter? No, that title belongs to Andrew Wyeth.
Wyeth achieved acclaim in the 1940s to the 1960s, but opinions on his reputation as an artist are polarised. Hopper, on the other hand appears to have had more influence on art and popular culture.🙂
The robotic voice edit was unfortunate. My favourite artist after Vermeer.
Glad you enjoyed the artist's work.
He always gets the lighting and perspective wrong, which keeps you looking.
A great and interesting documentary spoilt by an AI voice.
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paintings are real but the AI features are troublesome
The paintings shown in the first ten seconds seem to be irrelevant to Edward Hopper! Why are there here then?
A painter, lonely in his studio, looking out through a window. All typical Hopper themes and influences.
@@arti-facts-4u yes, but not his works!
Lots of the pictures in the video are not his work, but they set the mood.
“However”??!!! (0:20)
He was a realist painter, but his vision of reality was a distorted one.
How I despise interpretations of anybody's work. We can all bring our own perspective and opinion without someone else belabouring us with theirs.
Thank you for bringing us your opinion on opinions.
@@arti-facts-4u ...Missing the point. I have a view of Hopper's work, but I don't then issue it as a you-tube video. When someone says, 'it's as if', regarding his work, then we are entering into interpretation, and that is something entirely personal and contentious. The video would have been better if it had kept to the actual circumstances of Hopper's life and works. Robert, uk.
Thanks for your suggestion.
@@arti-facts-4u ....Thanks for replying. I should have added that aside for the moments where you offered personal analysis of Hooper's material, you did a sterling job of bringing together everything one would want to know about the man and his life.
Leave the arty stuff to art critics, who frankly often do twaddle on pretentiously, leaving no-one the wiser (in my opinion, ha ha). Robert, uk
The three storey house by the railway track is NOT Victorian.
I don't know why you say that. The house that is said to have inspired the painting is a Second Empire style Victorian mansion in Haverstraw, New York, where it still stands today.
I thought the robot voice was ok. Can’t pronounce a few words like Nyack correctly. Big deal. I do wonder why RUclips creators don’t think their own voice is good enough. The content is very good, although asan engineer by training, i roll my eyes at some of the psychological projections made. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Wasn’t aware of Hoppers history of etchings.
Lovely. Wish it was a real human narrating.
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“Comfortably well to do..” is redundant.
Robert Henri is mispronounced..it’s Hen-rye.
Interesting documentary and illustrations. Annoying computer narrator. (Why do people do that, huh?)
Did a robot write this piece? If not then why the AI voice? What does it add? Extra artificiality? I am not a robot. Edward Hopper was not a robot. No one I know is a robot. So why lay robotic voices on us? What have we done to deserve this? It’s not as if a human being couldn’t do this job. If we as humans turn a blind ear to this sort of thing then before long we will have robots singing hymns and doing crochet.
Come on! Its not that bad. In fact I thought this was my best AI voice so far.
@@arti-facts-4u That’s much better! Now I know you’re not a robot!
@@petergregory7199I’m not sure that Peter Gregory is saying that the voice is his own,but that it is his AI creation.
He was jealous of HER terrible amateur paintings ? I doubt that very much, She may have studied with Robert Henri but There was no comparison between Edwards work and Josephine’s work she was an amateur painter at best…
Jo Nivison Hopper was a successful artist in her own right before she married Edward Hopper. Her work had been shown alongside that of renowned artists such as Modigliani and Picasso, and she regularly sold drawings to prominent publications.
There are differing opinions on the quality of her art. Some critics have praised her watercolors, describing them as superb, and expressing her "cheery" worldview. However, there are also accounts of fairly negative responses when she showed her work to gallerists or collectors later in life.
In recent years, there has been a renewed interest in her work, and she is being rediscovered as an artistic force in her own right.
Open YOUR eyes , her work SUCKEd , sorry they let her exhibit, but her is mediocre against his, And if you can’t see that you are blind@@arti-facts-4u
Thanks for your opinion.
You can’t face truth…?..LOL@@arti-facts-4u
Artificial intelligence, from capitalists to the rich and so on and so forth.
The AI voice is unlistenable.
We all speak like that in Australia!
I would have liked to watch this, but couldn’t stand the narration. Shame.
You can always turn the volume down and watch subtitles.
@@arti-facts-4u..Not really a very helpful suggestion.
It is pronounced Robert Hen-rie.. I hate this robot voice. If not a robot, she is completely emotionless
Robert hen- RYE
right. Not Hen-ree, as the narrator kept saying.
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Thank you for pointing that out.
As soon as the narrator said that Hopper abused and subordinated his wife, I stopped caring about Edward Hopper; an awful human being.
I guess I'm "that guy" today. Really didn't like the video. The text-to-speech narration is an odd, synthetic, inhuman way to narrate an art video, distracting and sometimes annoying. The continuous jumping back and forth to works from different time periods made it hard to get a direct feeling for how is art evolved. Most troublesome was your insisting on making up your own explanations for what is going on in the artwork (and sometimes weak, often debatable ones at that) in spite of the actual artist who did the work saying there is no story, the picture is what it is. Yet you must impose your vision as some sort of meta-truth that even Hopper may have not been aware of. And the cliche "current day" negative judgements on people and times that were different.
Thanks for your input.