"Edward Hopper was a visual alchemist.
Scenes of life’s mundanities — offices, street corners, apartment
blocks, rooftops — entered his eyes, traversed his meticulous brain,
quested through spine and viscera, and flowed into fingers wielding
brushes to materialize on canvas as mesmerizing dramas of light, volume,
and psychology. Even when his workaday spaces are unoccupied, they
thrum with mysterious narratives. ..."
Automat, 1927
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