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  • Friday Faves: City Slickers

    Friday Faves: City Slickers

    We are headed to Seattle this weekend, one of my favorite cities in the world, the city where George and I fell in love.  And while I was falling in love with G ( I was probably a little in love with him when we were friends in FL, but that’s a story for another time ), I was also falling in love with Seattle.  I adore visiting cool cities– the urban landscape and architecture fascinates me.  So it carries over that I would adore the art of the cityscape.

    For this Friday Fave round-up, I’d like to share some of urbanist artists whose work I’m crushing on lately:

    Hill Houses 2 by Brin Levinson
    Passing 1 by Jason Webb
    Solitary I by John Duckworth
    Loew’s Hotel, 33rd Floor, Philadelphia by Sara Yeoman
    Miyami by Darra Crosby
    Great Tortoise Hostel, Seattle by Robin Weiss
    Boulevard Windows by Sharon Dowell

    Looking forward to bringing you more from these artists soon!  In the meantime,  take a gander at their websites..

    1.  Brin Levinson

    2.  Jason Webb

    3.  John Duckworth

    4. Sarah Yeoman

    5. Darra Crosby

    6. Robin Weiss

    7. Sharon Dowell 

    Are you taking it to the city streets this weekend?  What’s your favorite city for artsy inspiration?

  • Masterworks Monday: Edward Hopper

    Masterworks Monday: Edward Hopper

    Happy Monday, Artsies!  Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday weekend.  This week’s Masterworks Monday artist is one of my all-time faves, American Realist painter Edward Hopper.   A feeling of melancholy tends to pervade most of Hopper’s work, but maybe that is why they appeal to me.  His scenes seem so very real, not just in their sense of time and of place, but in the capturing of a moment.  Early mornings in small towns DO feel desolate, being an attendant at a gas station on a far off country road WOULD be lonely.

    Early Sunday Morning by Edward Hopper

    Image via Whitney Museum of American Art

    Gas by Edward Hopper

    Image via Museum of Modern Art

    Don’t you want to know what’s going on with this young blonde movie usher?  Is she sad?  Is she contemplating making a change in her life?

    New York Movie by Edward Hopper

    Image via Museum of Modern Art

    Despite the lone figures or desolate landscapes, Hopper’s images are filled with light and in that, create a sense of hope within the isolation.  Early morning means it is a new day.. light coming in a window means that there is an escape from the darkness.  Whether this is what Hopper intended or not, it is what I personally take from his work.

     Morning Sun by Edward Hopper

    Image via The New York Times

    How about you?  What do you see in Hopper’s work?  How does it make you feel?