ALTER43

@alter43

I participate in Tumblr on two levels, as a blogger and as an artist. As a member of the blog community, I am the curator and publisher of my own eclectic archive of photography, art, quotes, video and music. As an artist, Tumblr has become the first venue for the exhibition of my own digital images from the groups "Particles and Waves" and "Extrusion Maps." I appreciate the free exchange with other members and the sharing of my collection, as well as the exhibition of my own work within such an easy to use, non-commercial environment. http://www.douglasprince.com/

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Edie Seberg

Barber shop

Hopper

art-mirrors-art

I - of course - have already shared Hopper's Barber Shop (1931) (see it here); 'of course' because Hopper painted only very few works with mirrors (five, to be precise) and it could be expected that I'd share them all. And yet I will use the kind hint from @45fthc to talk about this work again.

First, 13 years ago I had only a very small copy of this painting. The one above is not the best either, so here is a more decent, larger version:

And speaking about size, it's actually THE largest canvas painted by Edward Hopper - it's almost 2m wide (152 x 198 cm, to be precise). It's currently in the collection of the little-known Neuberger Museum of Art of the State University of New York; and it's 'retired' there, meaning they never loan it to exhibitions - you need to physically go there to see it.

Because of its unusually large size - unusually for Hopper - its mirror, with a barber forever deprived of his face, becomes almost a standalone painting on its own:

The preliminary study for the painting shows that the mirror was intended from the very beginning:

… but from the very beginning it wasn't actually the main focus of the work - the bright diagonal cone of light was. It's a bit of a pity that Hopper didn't direct it onto the mirror's surface too, to show how light of different intensity is reflected.

Oh well. Still, a very cool art-mirrors-art piece.

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Jackie and friends with Versace handbags at a private opening at the Versace store, Beverly Hills, California, 2007. © Lauren Greenfield/INSTITUTE - Courtesy MAMM

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A Dryad in her sheltering tree

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