Edward Hopper once said, "Maybe I am not very human; what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house."
For him, summer was a season of light at its most revealing. What can the sun's glare teach us about ourselves? 🧵👇 #artbots#hopper
'Rooftops of Paris at Sunset.' (1899) Inspired by Monet’s famous studies of haystacks and the Rouen cathedral, Gustave Cariot was fascinated by the fluctuations of light and colour brought about by the changing seasons.
'Two Lemons.' (1970) Eliot Hodgkin painted this still-life in tempera, a medium which enabled him to 'achieve the effects I am aiming at… I try to show things exactly as they are, yet with some of their mystery and poetry, and as though seen for the first time.’