Avail Yourself Hopper Planned By Rolf Günter Renner Available As Audiobook

a while i skimmed through a lot of the analysis and focused more on the paintings.
i love hopper's use of lighting and the atmosphere he has in a lot of his work Pekne spracované.
Ale pre takého povrchného laika ako ja niekedy až príliš odborný rozbor jednotlivých diel Very good.
Good analysis of the works through the decades, Good plates of the paintings, Nice layout and text/The color reproductions are excellent, Worthy analysis overall, if a bit repetitive and dry, Wanted more on his influence on/from other artists and his station in the modern movement, Maybe a correlation between his semiotics and those of Ed Ruscha, And a contrast with the early prairie landscapes of Clyfford Still or the stark, precisionist urban scenes of Charles Sheeler.
I learned a good bit but it left me wanting more, Hopper was initially trained as an illustrator, but, betweenand, he studied painting under Robert Henri, a member of a group of painters called the Ashcan School.
Hopper travelled to Europe three times betweenand, Still, he remained untouched by the experimental work then blossoming in France and continued throughout his career to follow his own artistic course.
Although he exhibited paintings in the Armory Show of, he devoted most of his time to advertising art and illustrative etchings until.
He then began to do such watercolours as Model Reading, as well as oil paintings, Like the painters of the Ashcan School, Hopper painted the commonplaces of urban life, But, unlike their loosely organized, vivacious paintings, his House by the Railroadand Room in Brooklynshow still, anonymous figures and stern geometric forms within snapshotlike compositions that create an inescapable sense of loneliness.
This isolation of his subjects was heightened by Hoppers characteristic use of light to insulate persons and objects in space, whether in the harsh morning light Early Sunday Morning,or the eerie light of an allnight coffee stand Nighthawks,.


The mids already formed hoppers mature style, His subsequent development showed a constant refinement of his vision, Such late paintings as SecondStory Sunlightare distinguished by extremely subtle spatial relationships and an even greater mastery of light than is seen in his work of thes.


Source: sitelink britannica. com/biography/ I purchased this book at the DC National Gallery of Art, more for the paintings rather than the words.
Hopper has been one of my favorite artists for the colors and sense of longing he invokes, and I was curious to see a more full analysis of his paintings.
On that regard, this book passed with flying colors, It makes for an excellent coffee table book, something to flip through almost meditatively,

The analysis by Dr, Renner was a bit less ideal, Although it provided great insights as to the continuity of Hopper's works throughout his years, as well as the different ways that it related to Modernism and the psychological effects of his times, the analysis seemed almost fixated on Fruedian psychology.
Perhaps it is just a bit too passe or easy to comment on the usage of light, loneliness, and color, but the strong emphasis on longing, desire, and sexual tension was not especially appealing.
It did give me a different view of Hopper's paintings, and as the book brings together his works from various collections from New York, New Haven, Chicago, and Iowa, it was an excellent retrospective of the major pieces of art that Hopper created.
This Taschen series of artist books are a solid resource and this volume on Ed Hopper is no exception.
Definitely widens your appreciation for the deep cuts as well as the greatest hits, Muito bom.
Eu sempre tive certas opiniões e sentimentos sobre as obras do Hopper e esse livro conseguiu me explicar e contextualizar muita coisa.
Sem contar que ter as imagens coloridas pra olhar é muito bom, El análisis que Rolf realiza de la obra de Hopper en ocasiones me parece molesta no es necesario buscar referencias sexuales hasta en un salero, señor pero fuera de esto, vi cosas que nunca antes había notado.


Este libro me lo regaló mi esposa y esto aunado a que es uno de mis dos pintores favoritos el otro siendo José María Velasco, lo hace un libro muy especial.


La edición es hermosa nadie hace libros de arte como Taschen y es un gusto tenerla en nuestra biblioteca.


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The text is terrible, The author assumes you to be a specialist in modern art and be familiar with Hoppers work which goes against the concept of the “basic art” series.
He loves his fancy lingo and constantly refers to works not included in the book, This is exactly the kind of pretentious bullshit around art that intimidates so many people and puts them off art, rather than pulling them in!

Hoppers art is amazing and printed well.
The double page spreads really do his work justice, Just wish they got someone else to do the text, because it is so dry, Not the best book you can find on Hopper, . .
Apparently everything is a phallic symbol for the writer, My favourite one was the salt cellar that represented desires lol,
I was fairly annoyed by this, I guess it represents more the writer than Hopper in a way, A book on the Master of the aching silence in the American dream, Edward Hopper,



Layout:/
The images are beautifully crisp and vibrant, and Renner makes the excellent choice of ending the book on Hopper's final painting, of two bow taking clowns representing himself and his fellow artist, muse and wife, Josephine Hopper.
Annoyingly every other image is added seemingly at random, with no care for date, theme or discussion in the text, and asking me to compare two images that arepages apart with the text in the middle is frankly taking the piss.
A scalepaper cut risk,

Content:/
Hopper was one of those selfish artists who didn't have the decency to suffer a mental breakdown or act like an utter whore, and thus his life was one of quiet fame and a stable marriage with a woman who shared and encouraged his passion for painting, which won't be scintillating reading for the mawkish, misery hound art lover.
To resolve this problem, Renner barely discusses Hopper's life at all, not even mentioning his birth date or childhood in the main text.
He also doesn't give nearly enough detail or weight to the role Josephine played in Hopper's work.
Though stating she was basically a rival and critic, Renner gives no known antecdotes or examples of this, talking far more about her body as Hopper's model.


Presuming Hopper simply spawned into the world as an adult, Renner concentrates on the paintings themselves, and I was constantly annoyed by two issues:

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Renner's a bit horny.
Just as the preRaphelite's were obsessed with redheads and Dali was a worshipper of the pleasantly perky posterior, Hopper is most definitely a boob devotee, highlighting or exaggerating them with shading or needlessly tight clothes at every given opportunity sometimes with a beautiful vulnerability or sensuality, while at other

times it's just gratuitous, and even the oldest of his female characters remain wonderfully voluptuous.
There is inarguably an obsession with the older female form, voyeurism and magnificently marvelous mammaries in Hopper's paintings, and yet somehow Renner seems the more creepily sweaty, crowbarring sexual interpretations into even the most innocuous pictures.
His take on Chop Sueywas an uncomfortable example for me:

Apparently the Chop Suey sign is positioned in such a way it seems to spell SEX does it, and it's red, which also immediately means SEX.
The profile face of the woman in the background, who has bright red lips are they matches the colour of the sign, all of which indicates a deep SEXual expression and I really don't see any of this.
It feels like a forced Freudian moment for me, and pointless when there's enough overt or underlying sexual tension in other paintings for Renner to spend energy and pages on.


The second issue with the essay isn't entirely his fault:
Hopper is a shallow artist
I in no way mean that Hopper is flimsy or overrated, but he picked one, and precisely one, theme for all his work and perfected it to the point of exquisite beauty: melancholy.
Look at any Hopper painting and you won't find joy, energy, movement, chaos, political outrage, All is ennui.

You'll find cold isolation and a sense of fulfilment lost:


Relationships with an unspoken and unbreachable divide:


Or tragic anticipation unlikely to be satisfied:


All his works showcase lonliness, ambivalence and longing with a sombre calm, but there is only so many different ways of stating that same feeling and intention in the paintings before it becomes tiresome repetition.
Renner is forced to reiterate 'the windows are a framing device', 'nature encroaching on civilisation', 'voyeurism' and every word I used at the beginning of this paragraph to the point of dull annoyance.
I admit Renner has a tough job trying to make the same thing fresh and interesting over and over again, but when he starts putting me off Hopper's art work rather than illuminating it, it's safe to say he's failed badly.


As a coffee table book of beautiful Hopper images, this a wonderful showcase of his works, but the essay often left me as unsatisfied and unsated as one of Hopper's lonely figures.
알폰스 무하Alphonse Mucha의 내용이 좋아서 이것도 찾아 읽어봤다. Mucha와 달리 여기는 세세한 설명이 있었지만, 그거는 건너뛰고 그림만 봤다A bit on the pretencious side and it could have been written in more laymans terms, This book could work for someone who already has a working knowledge of the particular aspects of art history the author is referencing to.
Edward Hopper was acknowledged as one of the notable painters in the US history, He left impression for the unique style and manner, His works did not only portray the US society especially the urban settings, with different destinies and aspects, but also left an impression of modern solitude, yet with sentimentality.
In terms of this facet, his works were able to trigger lingering feelings for the audience, and remained memorable.
I had a positive memory of Hopper's works, It's a very good collection of Hopper's paintings but the commentary was somewhat disappointing: It raised some interesting points, but they were never fully developed and at times I felt the author was overanalyzing some of the paintings.
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