Two on the Aisle, Hopper
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| Author: | Edward Hopper |
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| Original Title: | Two on the Aisle |
| Type: | Painting |
| Medium | Oil |
| Support: | Canvas |
| Year: | 1927 |
| Subject: | City life |
| Located: | The Toledo Museum of Art, USA |
The composition is simple: three people sitting in the stands of an empty theater. This was the first of many works in which the artist would paint theaters.
Instead of depicting the stage action or the large audience, Hopper chooses to capture the quiet moment before the performance begins. The painting is full of details that invite the viewer to immerse themselves in the story. The two people on the left are clearly a couple (in fact, they are Hopper himself and his wife Jo), and all three figures appear solitary and absorbed in their own psychology.
Original English title: "Two on the Aisle".
This painting is exhibited at the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, United States.
Hopper is the modern specialist in conferring intensity and psychological complexity to the most ordinary moments. The viewer immerses themselves in the carefully composed scenes, identifying with or thinking about the characters, who usually appear isolated.
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ARTIST DATA
Edward Hopper
| Full Name: | Edward Hopper. |
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| Birth: | 1882, New York. |
| Death: | 1967, New York. |
| Style: | American Realism. |
Edward Hopper was an American painter of the modernist period, known for capturing like no one else the solitude and suspended calm of urban life. A master of American Realism, he transformed everyday scenes —an empty gas station, a diner lit at dawn, a window open to silence— into reflections on modern existence. His work doesn’t just show buildings or figures: it reveals the space between them, that moment when time seems to stop and the soul looks inward.
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