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Historically, the term landscape in painting indicates an image of nature because it is subject to the force of a constant evolution which cannot be fixed like an image.
Hopper succeeds in his works to show the subtle and multifaceted influence of the impact of man on his environment. His landscapes are limitless, they always seem infinite, showing only a precise part of a huge whole.
This particularity places Hopper in a very modern approach opening a historical page of art.
In his paintings, everything seems to happen outside, the characters look beyond and thus oblige the spectators to complete this vision with their own sensation and their imagination.
Hopper’s paintings are filled with melancholy, loneliness with a feeling of nervousness and apprehension. Hopper shows the sometimes brutal intrusion of man into nature through his clearly geometric composi- tions.
A road, a railway, a horizontal line that crosses expanses of territories that humans are trying to control.