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Edward Hopper was an of this transformation Home School Drawing E extremely private man who include “Le Quai Grands Classes February 20 and i granted few interviews. Augustins” and “Le Parcde = March 6; Lecture, “Edward Much of what scholars Saint Cloud.” Hopper, the Paris Years,” know about his work comes He remained committed March 2; Senior Day Tours, from his wife Jo Nivison to realism and exhibited March 6 and April 3; and Hopper’s journals. some of the basic characters Art History Course: “Edward Hopper: The that the was to retain “American In Paris” March Paris Years”, organized by throughout his career- com- 11, 18, and 25. the Whitney Museum of positional style based on The Mint Museum of Art American Art in New York, simple large geometric is located at 2730 Randolph Hopper said little about American, the “poet of mod- p.m. 10 p.m. are free hours. even his most accomplished ern civilization” did. For information, call the ; Painings. Eelieving the If Hopper discovered the poet- museum at 704-337-2000 or 3 work shoud speac for itself. ry and critical writing of check the website at Phot : ! Scholars have been left to Charles Pierre Baudelaire www.mintmuseum.org. Edward Hopper, Le Pavillon de Flore Pio Souriesy of The Mint Mussum speculate on the influences (1821-1867) whose formula- nan y provides a tantalizing look Museum on February 22 and runs through June 1, 2003. New York School of Art to the psychological reaction of a young man raised in a small town coming to grips with isolation and loss. Edward Hoppers early talent for drawing and painting was encouraged by his mother Elizabeth. The family’s middle class concern for his financial security influenced Edward to attend the New York . School of Illustrating before transferring to the New York School of Art. Hopper would work for 15 years as a commercial illustrator, vulnerable and introspec- FORD EXPLORER | | 1999 SATURN 1999 GMC 2001 GEO work that he despised. tive, adrift in tt EDDIE BAUER SL1 COUPE SONOMA SLS TRACKER His skill at painting places. 0 a or hb watercolors, however, is remarkable eye for being able to adjust a composition to where it would have the most immediate-and dra- matic impact on the viewer. After six years at the New York School of Art, Hopper left for France in October, 1906. His Paris studies coin- cided with the exciting era in the history of the Modern surroundings. pd a boas Movement. Edward Hopper was 43 w3368..°9.988 o 149857. 10,988 wu 150885, '101988 w 13.0881. 10,988 While in Europe, Hopper . years old before painting : ; also visited London, what is generally acknowl- 150 Automatic, Power Locks, Power Windows, 2002 TOYOTA 1999 INFINITI Amsterdam, Berlin, edged to be his first fully M DE 0 99 MITSUBISHI GD Player. Loaded; Stic.# 24997! 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Hours or ings and 15 works on paper early Paris work favored the are Tuesday 10 a.m.-1 0 o opens at Charlotte's Mint depiction of small streets p-m., Wednesday through such as “Steps in Paris.” While modern painting failed to impress the young on his career, from his realist tion of his aesthetic theory art instructors Robert Henri, served as the inspiration for William Merritt Chaseand the Symbolist Movement f Kenneth Hayes Miller at the away from painting by observation to an expression of more subjective, intellec- tual, and emotional visions. Hopper was to recite Baudelaire’s work through his life. The two men shared interests in solitude, in city life, in the silence of the night and in places of travel. Hoppers figures in his mature work seem far from home, they sit or stand alone, looking at a letter on the edge of a hotel bed or drinking alone at a bar or gazing out the window of a moving train. 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