Hopper - People in the Sun, 1960

Almost each work of Hopper is intriguing. There is a tension, you feel that there is some hidden story behind.

Here, in the canvas from the American Art Museum, I can feel an ironic approach. Sure, you see here the main theme of Hopper, the solitude; in this case the solitude in the middle of the crowd. However, it's not only that. Each guy here is concerned strictly to get her or his portion of sun, period. Totally unaware of the others, unhaunted by any hidden story from the past, any old corpse in the closet, any forgotten ghost in the dreams (reason: they are not dreaming), not waiting for any sudden story in the future. No tension here. They simply don't care.




(American Art and Portraiture)

(Hopper)