Edward Hopper ombre e luci: Edward Hopper shadows and lights

The lights, the shadows, the facets of a great artist of the American realism of the twentieth century. The most significant paintings, the particular and photographic shots that stand out even more than the entire pictorial production of American artists of the same period. His descriptions, his visions and above all that particular sense of solitude, of "expectation" and "suspension" that comes out of all his paintings

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This "Nighthawks" was the first picture of Hopper that I saw as a kid and that struck me from the first glance. It had been reported on the cover of a book by James M. Cain that I had chosen to read. Maybe it was really more for the cover that I chose that book, regardless of what it contained.
Undoubtedly this is one of the best known and reproduced Hopper paintings.
Here, contrary to other paintings with views of public places, we do not look towards the window or outside, but from the outside we look in and out of this room, as we could look in a shop window or in an aquarium. Here glass is the dominant element and acts as a divider, despite its transparency, as it combines optically but separates at the same time, mounted on thin steel dividers allowing to confuse both inside and outside making them almost indistinguishable ...
From here I chose to deepen this particular American artist, with those "suspensions", those waiting and his shots blocked like a photographic diaphragm.
Even today, after many years, I still like to reproduce those same atmospheres, between one of my creations and the other.
Dario Somigli

Compartment C Car 193