Taking a passing look at Edward Hopper’s Seven A.M. (featured on the November 2012 issue of On-the-Town), you get a sense of a sweet, early-morning snapshot of a country store in a small town. Study it for awhile and you get an uncanny feeling that there is something that doesn’t quite fit. Is it because there is no hint of roads or other buildings? Or is it the foreboding woods in the background?
“It seems straightforward when you look at it,” said Carter Foster, the Steven and Ann Ames curator of drawing for the Whitney Museum of American Art, who will be coming to the Grand Rapids Art Museum this month to talk about Hopper and the current “Real/Surreal” exhibit at the GRAM. “There is nothing sinister about the building; however, the building doesn’t seem to fit against the woods that look forbidding and strange.”
While Hopper, known for his American themes, was a great observer and took in everything he saw, his work wouldn’t fall into the definition of realism as the painter often didn’t have a hesitation of omitting or altering details.
“Hopper wanted to capture the feeling and atmosphere, and he felt comfortable abandoning the logical to paint what he wanted,” Foster said. Going back to Seven A.M, “if you look at the building, we really shouldn’t be able to see in the windows because of the way the sun should be reflecting off the glass. It is as if there is no glass there.”
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