Edward Hopper - Painter of Alienation

Find a written version of this video at http://colinjwingfield.blogspot.com/2... If you are interested in painters and painting, try my post on Renoir at: http://colinjwingfield.blogspot.fr/20... If you like art in general, you may also like my presentation of Alfred Lord Tennyson's stirring poem, ‘Ulysses’, here:    • The Last Adventure of Ulysses   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    / @jmendezmusic   Lucas King: 'The Shadow People'    • Dark Piano Music - The Shadow People (Orig...   Kyong Lee: 'Shenandoah'    • Shenandoah - traditional folk song - Harmo...   Kevin Macleod: 'Lost Frontier'    • Video   Unknown composer: 'Music of the Spheres'    • Music of the Spheres (432 Hz)   Unknown composer: 'Lavender Town Piano Music'    • Creepy and Slow Lavender Town Piano   Pulse Emitter: 'High Altitude Golden Sunset' http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Pul...