with love, soir bleu

September is here, my favourite season.
Why not celebrate it with a painting that reminds me of the conversations people have about finding a ”partner” for the autumn and/or winter. Where people are so loud about how lonely they are. An admirable confession, even if it’s said in a sarcastic way.
Most of the times.. I think.

’Soir Bleu’ (1914)

So I present to you, one of many pieces I absolutely adore by American artist Edward Hopper (1882-1967).
He is the person behind a very famous painting, Nighthawks (see below).
Edward was excellent in portraying the feeling and sense of void and loneliness in his paintings, in a way that I’ve never witnessed before, even though they are colourful as fuck. A mix of depression and everything will get better. It makes me want to jump in to one of his paintings and have a whole, all night long type of conversation with the people or person in it. He painted in such a way and from an angle that always made you an observer, quite literally. His paintings always leaves me wanting and wondering more. I can’t get enough of them and selfishly wish that Edward could live on forever and never stop painting.

’Nighthawks’ (1942)

Other paintings I’ve written about: Lover of art
The birth of venus
Portrait of a black woman
The swing
The unequal marriage