So im going on in my newly discovered interest in painting and also had a second look at Edward Hopper. His works are often considered as an expression of loneliness and melancholy.
But the story is not primarily about the depicted people. It is more about the scenery – architecture and landscape. The works are very much reduced to representations of the essentials and from time to time Hopper let go any details until in the end only an empty room and the shadow of the sun has been left over. Empty rooms and places which opens up space for the viewers own power of imagination. If that side benefit was part a of his intention – I do not know. Maybe that minimalism in his pictures is also one of the reasons that we nowadays still like him that much – as we all get rid of things we do not need and sparseness is modern. Or maybe its just some of us.