{"id":11719,"date":"2012-07-26T07:00:21","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T07:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zatista.com\/blog\/?p=11719"},"modified":"2016-07-19T20:48:57","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T20:48:57","slug":"artists-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zatista.ca\/blog\/2012\/07\/26\/artists-eye\/","title":{"rendered":"An Artist’s Eye"},"content":{"rendered":"

While looking at certain works of representational art, do you ever wonder what the scene or subject matter really looked like before the artist translated it to canvas?\u00a0Here’s a great example using artist Edward Hopper<\/a>. According to Julie Bosman of the New York Times<\/a>, “Photographer Gail Albert Halaban<\/a> has been locating the original houses in Edward Hopper\u2019s paintings and taking pictures of them as they look today.”<\/p>\n

Then:<\/p>\n

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The Mansard Roof by Edward Hopper 1923, The Brooklyn Museum<\/p><\/div>\n

and now:<\/p>\n

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Photography by Gail Albert Halaban, Edwynn Houk Gallery <\/p><\/div>\n

Julie Bosman continues, “Greta Bagshaw, whose husband\u2019s family has owned the \u2018\u2018Mansard Roof \u2019\u2019 since 1962, is accustomed to attention. \u2018\u2018Not infrequently we\u2019ve seen people who set up easels in our backyard (in Gloucester, Mass.) to paint it,\u2019\u2019 Bagshaw says. \u2018\u2018We know it\u2019s time to put up the awnings each year when we\u2019re eating on the porch and we turn around and see a big tour group watching us eat dinner.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Then:<\/p>\n

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Anderson's House by Edward Hopper 1926, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston<\/p><\/div>\n

and now:<\/p>\n

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Photography by Gail Albert Halaban, Edwynn Houk Gallery<\/p><\/div>\n

Of course to New Yorkers, Edward Hopper is likely to evoke visions of moody nighttime urban scenes. But the painter created some of his most famous work in the bright seaside town of Gloucester, Mass., on Cape Ann, where he spent time in the 1920s.<\/p>\n

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Hodgkin's House by Edward Hopper 1928, National Gallery of Art<\/p><\/div>\n

and now:<\/p>\n

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Photography by Gail Albert Halaban, Edwynn Houk Gallery<\/p><\/div>\n

According to the National Gallery of Art, “Both commonplace and mysterious, [Hopper’s] haunting images led many to praise him as the most American of painters. That’s because, if you ask me, an artist’s eye is filled with magic.<\/p>\n

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