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Genre: Education
Date of upload: Aug 16, 2022 ^^
Rating : 4.972 (618/87,293 LTDR)
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Edward Hopper grew up in my home town, and his residence has since been turned into an exhibit. I am spoiled in that from an early age I have been exposed to his work and legacy firsthand. His breadth of work is simply astounding and accurately captures all the goods and bads of an America before the age of communication; an America where most people were alone. When he was nine years old, Hopper made a portrait on the back of his school report card. It was a self portrait of his nine-year-old self, alone, looking over an empty Hudson River. I'm convinced that the sense of lonesome melancholy is an innate part of the soul, and contextualizes the greater majesty of the world. I like to believe that the isolation in his painting isn't a sad one. Instead, the isolation is a seamless experience for the lone figures, akin to watching the sun rise from a mountaintop, or finding the simple beauty of a street corner lit only by moonlight and vacant shops. It's a feeling you can only experience if you're alone, even if you're with other people; a small glimpse into a fragile moment, otherwise unassuming when in company. Similar can be said of your music selections! Thank you for creating this playlist and pairing each track with a painting. Such a beautiful and unique emotion you've captured here!
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Hopperās stunning visual depiction of situational human melancholia here reminds me of Robert Frostās blunt and unsettling poetic depiction of our melancholic place in the Cosmos: āWe are microbes crawling across the patina of this least of globes.ā The music here profoundly captures that spirit of universal creaturely awareness of misplacedness.
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40s music is such a deeply comforting thing for me. Reminds me of my childhood at my grandmaās house. Iām only in my 20s but my grandparentsā house was frozen in time since the 70s, and the only shows Iād be watching all day were Tom and jerry, 90s Batman episodes, the hundreds of tv shows from the 50s that my dad had, etc. the old radios, TVs, phones, rooms, furniture. Etc. Iād spend my summers and winters there as a kid and get engulfed in this nostalgic era
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You know those photos or paintings that people pose for, for the preservation of the memory or to commemorate the moment or event? These paintings emphasize what is just outside of the border. What isn't in the photo that nobody cares about. Its so easy to get sucked in while looking at these since they create feeling of negative space that wants to be filled.
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You all are so pure. Thank you so much. And the one who's reading this, slow down a bit, step back if you have to, take a deep breath and enjoy the process. I know it's difficult but you know yourself the result will make you happy and will give you freedom. Keep pushing forward. You can do it. ā£
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