Office in a Small City, c. 1953 / Edward Hopper
For my next effort mood in art, I have chosen the American artist Edward Hopper’s 1953 painting, “Office in a Small City.”
In contrast to the hard-working laundresses in Degas painting, Hopper depicts a man sitting idly at his desk, staring out the window at the rooftops of the buildings across the street.
The painting is said to reprise Hopper’s signature subjects – a solitary figure, physically and emotionally detached from his surrounding and other people. The viewer is left to wonder – what is the man doing? Is he thinking, planning, imagining?
I see him in a Remote state or possibly a Visionary mood. What do you think?