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We are all Edward Hopper paintings now... (Original Post)
demmiblue
Mar 2020
OP
Is the guy in the second painting maintaining a proper six foot distance?
Tommy_Carcetti
Mar 2020
#8
captain queeg
(11,780 posts)1. I guess the guy could see the future
GreenPartyVoter
(73,188 posts)2. Yep.
robbedvoter
(28,290 posts)3. only, many of us wih way less space
but same solitude
MontanaMama
(24,241 posts)4. Feels like it.
Im an introvert and Im feeling very unsettled right now.
trusty elf
(7,483 posts)5. We wanted to go to see the big Hopper exhibition in Basel...
but now the museum is closed.
https://www.fondationbeyeler.ch/
FailureToCommunicate
(14,382 posts)6. And this now common scene: no Nighthawks...
![](https://i1.wp.com/media.boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/nighthawksabandoned.jpg)
demmiblue
(37,997 posts)7. Another one:
![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ETNs-kWU0AYKY5i.jpg)
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,702 posts)8. Is the guy in the second painting maintaining a proper six foot distance?
Back off, buddy.
Aristus
(69,006 posts)9. The last one, "Office In A Small City", is my favorite Hopper.
I first read about it when I was a kid, in an art appreciation book written for young people. The author commented on the painting that even adults daydream once in a while, and asked the reader to wonder what the subject in the painting was thinking about.
Fla Dem
(26,229 posts)10. How foretelling!
lindysalsagal
(22,454 posts)11. Keep the sharp knives away from me....
I'm not at that stage, yet...