For photography or creative work inspiration in general, I really look up to how Wong Kar Wai does storytelling and how Christopher Doyle frames & lights the scene. Absolutely love their work.
Ok, no clickbait title, unknown channel to me, yet, this resonates with me instantly. The humor and the apparent promise of a bit of intellectual content, which I crave for so much on RUclips. Anyway, only watched half a minute, but I just sense this is the right channel for me, hence, instant sub.
If stark, dramatic lighting is your thing, I cannot recommend Caravaggio's work enough. Dude was a master at these stark, beautifully lit scenes and portraits, and his ability to craft realistic likenesses is uncanny.
Im late to this page as I have only just started with film photography. But I love the work of Chin H Shin. Im a big street night photography fan and his use of colour and contrast is amazing. Thanks for the great vlogs I am learning a lot. I come from a digital background (wedding photographer), but im old enough (44) to remember the family fun and memories the old film camera offered us. Much love for deepest darkest UK.
I vividly remember the first time I saw Nighthawks as a kid, around 7 or 8. It immediately struck me and made me feel... deeply depressed, but, in an alluring way. Something about the way Hopper paints makes these people look like the only people who exist in the world. Even though there are multiple people in the frame, maybe even interacting, everyone looks utterly alone. Maybe because I’ve suffered from insomnia and childhood trauma, but seeing that feeling of being deafeningly alone at night reflected back at me gave me a paradoxical sense of comfort. Even though I often feel painfully alone, that loneliness is a human experience that’s been shared throughout time. It was a vague but powerful feeling I had as a child, but now that I’m an adult I can put words to what that feeling was. An odd comfort in the depiction of pain and loneliness. Or maybe I’m just missing the point entirely and should stay in therapy. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Regardless, thanks for the video!! 😜👍🏻
I’m doing a research about Hopper for my History of Art class. Your video is very helpful and makes me look at his work from a new and less scholastic perspective. Thank you very much!
Ed Hopper, JMW Turner, Claude Lorraine, V Goch, Alma Tadema and Caravaggio in any order. Lovely video and enjoy listening to you prattling all day. thanks again.
I love Hopper too. My most recent inspiration is from Stephen Shore. Uncommon places is a masterpiece. I’m working up to do a road trip using medium format. Your trips are great fun and that’s what I’m after.
Such a big fan of Hopper. They've had a big effect on my street photography work and my love of framing. That said, I didn't realise why I loved shooting through windows until you created the correlation there.
I was honestly this days old when I learned about Edward Hopper, even though I'm pretty sure I've seen that diner painting before. Regardless, I feel like I need to find some inspiration from non-contemporary artists in order to help inspire me to try different things. I don't have anyone specifically I channel off of at the moment, but you, along with some other film photographers on RUclips who shall remain nameless, got me into film, and I recently obtained a Nikon FM2N, to move me along the path. Thank you for making dank videos, Jason, or however the cool kids say it these days.
If I was a painter or proper photographer, I'd be obsessed with JMW Turner. Some years ago I went to Tate Modern in London for the first time. I've done a bit of art history. I like modern art, and have an idea of what I'm looking at. On the second floor, sort of in an alcove, was a Turner, one of his seascapes, showing a ship fighting its way through rough seas. I just kept coming back to stand in front of it. 200 years older than many of the works in Tate Modern, and it was by far the most modern thing in there.
Loved this post. It was nice to hear you break down why you like hopper. That concept was the best part for me. It got me to thinking about what I like emotionally about art not what I should like. Looking at those ideas makes it far easier to incorporate what I like about the artist with my own work. Well done. I just subscribed.
Bro, this analysis was next level. I’ve always been really drawn to ‘Nighthawks’ without delving any deeper into the artist or the philosophical themes, but you legit just made me a Hopper fan. This was fucking incredible. Side note: I think if Hopper were alive today and were on Reddit or RUclips, he would probably be drawn to “liminal spaces.” A term I’m not sure was in use during his lifetime describing places/things that are designed for large crowds or purposes, but caught at the right moment, empty (like abandoned shopping malls, old Victorian houses, asylums, or amusement parks). Places that just feel ..wrong ..not to be in use anymore. The time period and setting of Nighthawks also makes me think of NYC’s famous ‘Automat’ restaurants that are no more in the age before fast food existed and carried a generation during the Great Depression with their 5¢ coffee spigots popping out of the wall.
Always loved the Alien vs. Predator syle of your videos. It's what's kept me watching your videos. Nothing sexier or cooler than Jason ripping an alien to shreds to only reveal that he himself is a ruthless alien in our world.
Loved this! Living under a rock as I do, I hadn't heard of the artist but love the look of his work. Definitely on the hunt for a book of his now, do I can see more. Thanks for the introduction and insight.
Ever thought of master-painting yourself? Especially Baxter in your apartment during morning light or in every painting in front of every house facade. So it hast your own signature. And don’t forget to only use the 11 ingredients used to produce portra 400 as color.
Alex Webb has always been a huge influence for me. Love the way he fills a frame with his subjects and used the shadows to create void space on his kodachrome film (rip).
Hey Jason, I do love Hopper since I discovered him as a teenager. You should check Joaquin Sorolla's work, an spanish impressionist painter, known as "the master of Light". Thanks.
Hopper is pretty great... The Talbot house is in my town.. Talbot is all one quick word barely two syllables like tal-butt. Another similar artist with some Hopper style is Bo Bartlett. Many coastal scenes with people and more story telling than Hopper but you can see the obvious inspiration. Some of these houses and others in the same style still exist if you visited places like Gloucester MA or Rockland ME. Great content and discussion in your channel.
caravggio's work. literally all of it. i don't know why but David with the Head of Goliath and Cardsharps i could stare at for forever. Judith Beheading Holofernes is easily one of his most famous works but it never fails to mesmerize me.
I think Evgeny Lushin's work is some of the most slept on by people who talk about art on YT, especially the huge presence in and influence of his work on the "chill/study to livestream" kind of style
Very nice video - Hopper was a true master of course. The danish printer Vilhelm Hammershøi is also famous for capturing the very sense of loneliness....
Love this inspiration for photography through artworks. Hopper's austere, very strict control of composition and empty spaces also remind me of Andrew Wyeth, another one of my favourite painter. Both these painters' meticulous preparatory sketches and what and how they chose to paint would also help in your discussion too in my opinion. That book that you are using as an example is gorgeous too. I wonder what is its title?
A bit late to this, but you should definitely check out the work of director Roy Andersson. Try the movie - A Pigeon Sat On A Branch Reflecting Existence. Though not nearly as saturated with colour, his set design and wide-open depth of field give this surreal feeling of being stuck in a painting. The empty space really locks you into the characters themselves. It's fascinating.
From a different time, and of a different impressionist style is Gustave Caillebotte. In my mind, I would like to think Hopper and Caillebotte would be homies. Josef Sudek for still (or what I like to call regular) life. His photos of the St. Vitus cathedral give me shivers. And for the abstract I’ve recently been into Franco Fontana. He likes to shoot flat, abstract colour-scapes.
Weird, I have a very similar reaction to Edward Hopper paintings as you. They make me feel something and that is rare. It seems that my inner world looks like those paintings. They feel like home. If you like Edward Hopper, you might also enjoy the works of John Register and Todd Hido.
Lovely video, I also love Edward Hopper's work. Check out Alex Colville (painter) and Thaddeus Holownia (photographer), both from the region of Canada where I grew up.
Hopper is one of my favorites, too. I've actually noticed that you have a lot of that Hopper pastel and complementary color stuff going on in your work. If Hopper had lived in the west, he would have painted a lot of the scenes you shoot. I'd like to think I have the same aesthetic in my color work, on a much lesser scale. It's pretty dope that you shoot the same kind of meaningless stuff I do, and sometimes (more often than I) succeed in making it insightful. Andy
Nighthawks is absolutley the best piece of art I’ve ever seen. My wife blessed me by taking me to the Chicago Art Museum to experienced it personally, and after that, on my B-day, she gave me a beautiful framed replica. I’ll always treasure that for the rest of my life .
Hopper is my favourite artist. Over lockdown, I wrote a series of poems called 'The Hopper Octaves', as I felt as if the emotions I was feeling during the stillness and quietness of lockdown related so much to Hopper's paintings. Let me know if you'd like to have a read of my paintings, I'd love to share some with you, Jason. I love your photography btw!
I sure hope you finally win that lawsuit against your hairdresser.
me too
Can we make it a class action suit? Because it's caused me pain and suffering as well.
hey, lay off, his mother thinks he's a doctor
I think his hairdresser is his pillow, and it refuses to testify.
There’s bed head and then there’s hibernation head.
Nobody did solitude like Hopper.
Caspar David Friedrich is a personal favourite when it comes to solitude painters.
Nice! Vilhelm Hammershøi for me.
Andrew Wyeth?
@@j74s98 Another good one
_anne magill & joanna karpowicz also paint solitude in a very beautiful way_
I love the animations that you did with the paintings. Hopper is definitely one of my favorites to draw inspo from
I'm pretty sure Baxter did those
@@williampichardo1485 Could you please be more specific, I want to learn how to make that effect
"perhaps Hopper and I would have been 'homies'"
Thanks for showing us Mr Hopper’s work. The lighting and framing resonate with me too. I miss walking around with my camera, hunting isolated ‘worlds’
For photography or creative work inspiration in general, I really look up to how Wong Kar Wai does storytelling and how Christopher Doyle frames & lights the scene. Absolutely love their work.
Ok, no clickbait title, unknown channel to me, yet, this resonates with me instantly. The humor and the apparent promise of a bit of intellectual content, which I crave for so much on RUclips. Anyway, only watched half a minute, but I just sense this is the right channel for me, hence, instant sub.
Great editing as usual dude. I especially like the 2.5D parallax effect on the panning
This is my favourite video you’ve done. Usual punchlines but mostly a thoughtful, insightful observations & respect for another artist. Just wonderful
I used to not understand your thought process for a lot of your shots, but after watching this I completely get it now. Love your work.
Thank you for this awesome video about one of my favourite painters of all time.
If stark, dramatic lighting is your thing, I cannot recommend Caravaggio's work enough. Dude was a master at these stark, beautifully lit scenes and portraits, and his ability to craft realistic likenesses is uncanny.
Hell yeah that dude mastered chiaroscuro fr
Im late to this page as I have only just started with film photography. But I love the work of Chin H Shin. Im a big street night photography fan and his use of colour and contrast is amazing. Thanks for the great vlogs I am learning a lot. I come from a digital background (wedding photographer), but im old enough (44) to remember the family fun and memories the old film camera offered us. Much love for deepest darkest UK.
Just brilliant. Your analysis and execution of Hopper’s works stirs the artistic soul within me. Thank you friend.
"...also exhibit Hopper's love for watching people through windows... wait-"
I vividly remember the first time I saw Nighthawks as a kid, around 7 or 8. It immediately struck me and made me feel... deeply depressed, but, in an alluring way. Something about the way Hopper paints makes these people look like the only people who exist in the world. Even though there are multiple people in the frame, maybe even interacting, everyone looks utterly alone.
Maybe because I’ve suffered from insomnia and childhood trauma, but seeing that feeling of being deafeningly alone at night reflected back at me gave me a paradoxical sense of comfort. Even though I often feel painfully alone, that loneliness is a human experience that’s been shared throughout time.
It was a vague but powerful feeling I had as a child, but now that I’m an adult I can put words to what that feeling was. An odd comfort in the depiction of pain and loneliness.
Or maybe I’m just missing the point entirely and should stay in therapy. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Regardless, thanks for the video!! 😜👍🏻
just moved into a new apartment and after watching this video i’m 100% going to get a Hopper print to put up, thanks for highlighting his work 👍
This guy is so calm, but is just so funny and entertaining 😂
"Furiously masterpainting" is a variation on a theme for me. I'm also a big Hopper fan. Thanks.
I’m doing a research about Hopper for my History of Art class. Your video is very helpful and makes me look at his work from a new and less scholastic perspective. Thank you very much!
Impressive background details on Hopper paintings and beautifully set in scene. Thanks.
Ed Hopper, JMW Turner, Claude Lorraine, V Goch, Alma Tadema and Caravaggio in any order. Lovely video and enjoy listening to you prattling all day. thanks again.
ps, what is the ISBN number of your book and is it still in print? Thanks
You are hilariously melancholy and I love it.
every time i look at your sub count im amazed its not a million. awesome stuff, dont ever change.
Nicely done, Jason!
I love Hopper too. My most recent inspiration is from Stephen Shore. Uncommon places is a masterpiece. I’m working up to do a road trip using medium format. Your trips are great fun and that’s what I’m after.
Beautiful photography! Nice video.
dude...I'm in love you and your channel...
Such a big fan of Hopper. They've had a big effect on my street photography work and my love of framing.
That said, I didn't realise why I loved shooting through windows until you created the correlation there.
Love your art review style of Hopper. Subscribed!
100% agree. The Australian artist Jeffrey Smart has amazing work too, I think you will enjoy.
Yass! A true source inspiration painters. 🙌🏼 Never knew Hooper had so many great works
I was honestly this days old when I learned about Edward Hopper, even though I'm pretty sure I've seen that diner painting before. Regardless, I feel like I need to find some inspiration from non-contemporary artists in order to help inspire me to try different things. I don't have anyone specifically I channel off of at the moment, but you, along with some other film photographers on RUclips who shall remain nameless, got me into film, and I recently obtained a Nikon FM2N, to move me along the path. Thank you for making dank videos, Jason, or however the cool kids say it these days.
If I was a painter or proper photographer, I'd be obsessed with JMW Turner. Some years ago I went to Tate Modern in London for the first time. I've done a bit of art history. I like modern art, and have an idea of what I'm looking at. On the second floor, sort of in an alcove, was a Turner, one of his seascapes, showing a ship fighting its way through rough seas. I just kept coming back to stand in front of it. 200 years older than many of the works in Tate Modern, and it was by far the most modern thing in there.
Loved this post. It was nice to hear you break down why you like hopper. That concept was the best part for me. It got me to thinking about what I like emotionally about art not what I should like. Looking at those ideas makes it far easier to incorporate what I like about the artist with my own work. Well done. I just subscribed.
Its so true though! Looking at Edward Hopper paintings are like peering in on people from the outside
“He Started to fairly master paint” lol 👊👊💥
I came for classic Grainy Dayzzzz content, stayed cause he is rocking my boy Monsters Outside ❤️ awesome video dude!
Bro, this analysis was next level. I’ve always been really drawn to ‘Nighthawks’ without delving any deeper into the artist or the philosophical themes, but you legit just made me a Hopper fan. This was fucking incredible.
Side note: I think if Hopper were alive today and were on Reddit or RUclips, he would probably be drawn to “liminal spaces.” A term I’m not sure was in use during his lifetime describing places/things that are designed for large crowds or purposes, but caught at the right moment, empty (like abandoned shopping malls, old Victorian houses, asylums, or amusement parks). Places that just feel ..wrong ..not to be in use anymore. The time period and setting of Nighthawks also makes me think of NYC’s famous ‘Automat’ restaurants that are no more in the age before fast food existed and carried a generation during the Great Depression with their 5¢ coffee spigots popping out of the wall.
Furiously masterpainting. Yo grainy, this is maybe my favourite video you have shared to us. Thanks
Always loved the Alien vs. Predator syle of your videos. It's what's kept me watching your videos. Nothing sexier or cooler than Jason ripping an alien to shreds to only reveal that he himself is a ruthless alien in our world.
I always enjoy when you have that parallax animation on still images. Great work.
Loved this! Living under a rock as I do, I hadn't heard of the artist but love the look of his work. Definitely on the hunt for a book of his now, do I can see more. Thanks for the introduction and insight.
Ever thought of master-painting yourself? Especially Baxter in your apartment during morning light or in every painting in front of every house facade. So it hast your own signature. And don’t forget to only use the 11 ingredients used to produce portra 400 as color.
Brilliant. Really enjoyed this, thank you!
Very inspirational, thanks for the insight and video.
informative and enjoyable. thanks for the effort and the sharing. thumbs up.
Wow, I've been thinking how Edward Hopper has been an inspiration to my photography. Thank you for an awesome video.
Go watch Concord Blue Devils 2018 Dreams and Nighthawks while they recreate the painting in full size. Amazing show.
Always loved Nighthawks. I saw Gottfried Helnwein's Boulevard of Broken Dreams when I was like 8 or 9 years old and it stuck with me.
Thank you for the inspiration. Love Hoppers work.
Alex Webb has always been a huge influence for me. Love the way he fills a frame with his subjects and used the shadows to create void space on his kodachrome film (rip).
Hey Jason, I do love Hopper since I discovered him as a teenager. You should check Joaquin Sorolla's work, an spanish impressionist painter, known as "the master of Light". Thanks.
I've always loved his painting. 'excursion into philosophy'
11 secret herbs and spices... I approve this message.
Hopper is pretty great... The Talbot house is in my town.. Talbot is all one quick word barely two syllables like tal-butt. Another similar artist with some Hopper style is Bo Bartlett. Many coastal scenes with people and more story telling than Hopper but you can see the obvious inspiration. Some of these houses and others in the same style still exist if you visited places like Gloucester MA or Rockland ME. Great content and discussion in your channel.
Definitely wore that tee to match the book nice
This made me laugh and is interesting even tho I am neither really into painting or photography more into the person hopper itself it you gained a sub
caravggio's work. literally all of it. i don't know why but David with the Head of Goliath and Cardsharps i could stare at for forever. Judith Beheading Holofernes is easily one of his most famous works but it never fails to mesmerize me.
I think Evgeny Lushin's work is some of the most slept on by people who talk about art on YT, especially the huge presence in and influence of his work on the "chill/study to livestream" kind of style
Photographers Fan Ho and Saul Leiter are my favourites.
I was having a shit day until I heard you say "furiously master-painting"
Thank you
Watch the movie based on Edward Hopper's work
Shirley: Visions of Reality
Hopper has always been a big inspiration for me, I just love that shit.
Alright, fine I’ll watch it. Recommended this to me 18 times RUclips.
Edit: Good video, pretty color.
Hopper is my jam too. I have Nighthawks hanging in my living room. Mostly because my photos are too mediocre to hang.
Enjoyed your Hopper take. Andrew Wyeth.
Very nice video - Hopper was a true master of course. The danish printer Vilhelm Hammershøi is also famous for capturing the very sense of loneliness....
music as inspiration, Portished .
Beautiful video man
Hey Jason. You should check out, Richard Estes. He's a photorealistic artist. I LOVE his work...
Crystal Meth definitely showing with that mullet...💎
All i can say is....WOW!!!!
Love this inspiration for photography through artworks. Hopper's austere, very strict control of composition and empty spaces also remind me of Andrew Wyeth, another one of my favourite painter. Both these painters' meticulous preparatory sketches and what and how they chose to paint would also help in your discussion too in my opinion. That book that you are using as an example is gorgeous too. I wonder what is its title?
A bit late to this, but you should definitely check out the work of director Roy Andersson. Try the movie - A Pigeon Sat On A Branch Reflecting Existence. Though not nearly as saturated with colour, his set design and wide-open depth of field give this surreal feeling of being stuck in a painting. The empty space really locks you into the characters themselves. It's fascinating.
Recommendation: Stephen Shore and all the ‘New Topographics’ photographers. Robert Adam’s, Frank Gohlke, etc.
Great video! Thanks for sharing!
I am a Hopper fan myself. Nice video.
Furiously masterpainting
best video ever
From a different time, and of a different impressionist style is Gustave Caillebotte. In my mind, I would like to think Hopper and Caillebotte would be homies. Josef Sudek for still (or what I like to call regular) life. His photos of the St. Vitus cathedral give me shivers. And for the abstract I’ve recently been into Franco Fontana. He likes to shoot flat, abstract colour-scapes.
Weird, I have a very similar reaction to Edward Hopper paintings as you. They make me feel something and that is rare. It seems that my inner world looks like those paintings. They feel like home. If you like Edward Hopper, you might also enjoy the works of John Register and Todd Hido.
Lovely video, I also love Edward Hopper's work. Check out Alex Colville (painter) and Thaddeus Holownia (photographer), both from the region of Canada where I grew up.
I think you'd dig the cinematography of Michael Chapman in Raging Bull and Taxi Driver
Hopper is one of my favorites, too. I've actually noticed that you have a lot of that Hopper pastel and complementary color stuff going on in your work. If Hopper had lived in the west, he would have painted a lot of the scenes you shoot. I'd like to think I have the same aesthetic in my color work, on a much lesser scale. It's pretty dope that you shoot the same kind of meaningless stuff I do, and sometimes (more often than I) succeed in making it insightful. Andy
I found this super interesting. Thanks.
Haha I think I’m in love with you 🤣
Really cool video! It inspired me and it was funny 😊 Thank you!
Nighthawks is absolutley the best piece of art I’ve ever seen. My wife blessed me by taking me to the Chicago Art Museum to experienced it personally, and after that, on my B-day, she gave me a beautiful framed replica. I’ll always treasure that for the rest of my life .
I came for the art and stayed for the jokes
it's nice to see that besides being sarcastic you can speak about visual art as well =)
Thanks for posing the question.. I don’t think I’ve thought to use other art to inspire my film photos. Looking forward to pondering this.
You should look into the Nordic impressionists aka the Skagen Painters.
Back To The Future & Van Gogh Sunflower Thrower versions of Nighthawks
"Let's be honest, he probably would have nailed that" made me spit take my beer.
Hopper is my favourite artist. Over lockdown, I wrote a series of poems called 'The Hopper Octaves', as I felt as if the emotions I was feeling during the stillness and quietness of lockdown related so much to Hopper's paintings.
Let me know if you'd like to have a read of my paintings, I'd love to share some with you, Jason. I love your photography btw!
Fan Ho! Love his work and use of shadow!
"Rooms By The Sea" is his best IMO.
excellent.
Note the Fedoras which were very common during that era. Then they disappeared.
I have the Starbucks mug with nighthawks on it. Bought it at a goodwill and I felt this video is not by accident.