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Edward hope: make movies and plays in the pictures, and become the material library for the directors

Edward hope "nightingale", oil color canvas, 84 x 152.2 cm, 1942

There are many cross-boundary artists, but few people, like Edward Hopper, focus on an art form that crosses boundaries.It's hard to say who influenced who, and as a fanatic fan, hope's every work is filled with stories. He's not just a painter but also a director of painting.

Economic development in the United States in the late 19th century, sturm und drang, endure the town (Nyack) still remain calm in the countryside, the town a naturally shy, not good at self-expression teenager addicted to build the fantasy world of text.The retailer's father became his literary mentor, and his well-stocked library became his asset.The little boy named Edward hope grow up also started his artistic creation, he didn't become a writer, but picked up a brush, to become one of the most important master of painting in the 20th century in the United States.

The extensive reading of literature at a young age became an important medium for hope to express self-consciousness in the future.Little words in daily life, personality let hope expressed in verse as a communication tool: he often my wallet with a piece of works of johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet and dramatist, can come in handy for some fixed occasion;At Christmas, he proposed to his wife, Josephine, who plotted his wife's silhouette against the windowsill, in conjunction with vich's courtship poem, "the flawless moon."

....to be continued