Painting

"Morning Sun" - EDWARD HOPPER

Hopper has achieved a degree of abstraction that in fact has the effect of underlining the psychological component of the work. He has largely put the narrative elements of 'Morning Sun' aside - elements that linked up to the artistic tradition of window scenes as well as to aspects of the painter''s own life. Both the natural exterior and the view of the interior have been defamiliarized, Nature and Civilization, human bodies and houses, are used by Hopper as signs in a system to convey subconscious images and fantasies in compositions that only have a representational function at first glance; on closer consideration we realise that the divide between (painted) image and (psychological) image has long since ceased to apply.

Rolf Günter Renner, Edward Hopper, 1882-1967: Transformation of the Real, Taschen, 2000