SuitabookEdward Hopper paints his world
Robert Burleigh
- Reading
- Pause over the illustrations and compare what looks observed with what may be imagined. Invite your child to make a picture from details they notice in an everyday place.
- Themes
- Persistence in pursuing art: Hopper pursues art from childhood and continues painting through years when his work attracts little interest. The life story frames sustained commitment to his artistic goal as a virtue.
- Observation and imagination: Hopper draws on places and details encountered on his travels, sometimes combining them into scenes that did not exist as depicted. The book introduces art-making as a process that can transform observed details rather than simply copy a view.
- Worth knowing
- Some paintings feature solitary people, loneliness and eerie shadows; these are presented as elements of Hopper’s artistic subjects.