The City - Edward Hopper
Hopper's realistic work The City captures the contradictory essence of an urban landscape in transition. In the foreground, a richly decorated old building stands out, its intricate architectural details in stark contrast to the modern, functional buildings that surround it. The aerial view offers a perspective on the wide, open streets, depicting a scene where human presence is reduced to a few distant, almost ethereal figures walking through the empty square. This painting is a silent testimony to urban transformation, where the vestiges of the past confront the drive towards modernity. It is a visual representation of change, memory and ephemerality in the urban fabric that shapes our everyday environment.
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L'œuvre en bref
Hopper's realistic work The City captures the contradictory essence of an urban landscape in transition. In the foreground, a richly decorated old building stands out, its intricate architectural details in stark contrast to the modern, functional buildings that surround it. The aerial view offers a perspective on the wide, open streets, depicting a scene where human presence is reduced to a few distant, almost ethereal figures walking through the empty square. This painting is a silent testimony to urban transformation, where the vestiges of the past confront the drive towards modernity. It is a visual representation of change, memory and ephemerality in the urban fabric that shapes our everyday environment.
Would you like to buy another Edward Hopper painting? Discover all our reproductions of this artist.