....... this more purely visual drama of light and shadow that keeps his art from falling into literary theatricalism. And it is the same luminist rigor together with his gift for a stark pictorial geometry which never engulfs it's themes but, on the contrary, delivers them to the eye with a beguiling and affecting modesty, that seperates Hopper from the multitude of inferior artists who essayed similar American subjects.....
excerpt from
Hilton Kramer
The Stacks
2014
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Dissection of Hopper's Nighthawks
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-stacks-edward-hoppers-x-ray-vision?ref=scroll
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