Edward Hopper - Painter of Alienation

Find a written version of this video at
http://colinjwingfield.blogspot.com/2014/10/edward-hopper-painter-of-alienation.html

If you are interested in painters and painting, try my post on Renoir at: http://colinjwingfield.blogspot.fr/2018/05/renoir-his-life-work-and-insperation.html

If you like art in general, you may also like my presentation of
Alfred Lord Tennyson's stirring poem, ‘Ulysses’, here:
https://youtu.be/p-ndiWlLX4E

For many years I have been interested in the phenomenon of psychological alienation that haunts our modern world. I think it found its clearest expression in the theories of the German-American psychologist, Erich Fromm, who was able to put into plain words the sense of disconnectedness from life felt by many people today. Then one day, while looking in a book at some reproductions of several paintings by the American painter, Edward Hopper, it struck me that here was alienation expressed in pictorial form. I decided then to make a film that would attempt to analyse a number of Hopper paintings in terms of Fromm's ideas on alienation.

Credits for music used in this film:

Jorge Mendez: 'Cold', 'Sleepless Night', and 'Frozen' original soundtrack music
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC65ArIbjb_Y6NUh-4h5aF8Q
Lucas King: 'The Shadow People'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMSmZkR2o-U
Kyong Lee: 'Shenandoah'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p3yL4-jYto
Kevin Macleod: 'Lost Frontier'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmmY2eyPbw4
Unknown composer: 'Music of the Spheres'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-GC20KIRUY
Unknown composer: 'Lavender Town Piano Music'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MY-v-7GHhs
Pulse Emitter: 'High Altitude Golden Sunset'
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Pulse_Emitter/

Видео Edward Hopper - Painter of Alienation канала Colin Wingfield