"Still Looking"

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'Hopper's Polluted Silence'

__ He seems in his paintings to be on the verge of telling a story.
__ In his prime he never gives the tale away... The painting does not clinch any of these hints, and its abstract pattern remains free to affect us while we puzzle.

Reading is interaction at one remove.
Reminiscence and self-parody are part of remaining true to oneself.

Lighthouse Hill: In masterly landscapes.. a thrilling absoluteness sweeps in along with the deep shadows carved by the low sun... light and air are given a crystalline firmness.
Chop Suey: two cloche-hatted young women, who both seem to be listening. Hopper's young females in these paintings are not yet aware of their poignance.

__ The concern with tightly organized composition... earned Hopper the (unreciprocated) respect of the Abstract Expressionists
__ One wishes that Hopper had broken his possessive wife's interdict against his painting any nudes but her and found himself a model with a softer, more pleasing visage than the formidable Josephine Nivison Hopper's.

[Henry James]: "the so beautifully unsaid"
[Wallace Stevens]: "Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into."