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Created on March 12, 2024
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GAS (1940) by Edward Hopper
MAIN DESCRIPTION : This painting is depicting a man in a gas station on a empty highway surrounded by a dense forest at dusk or dawn. The man is checking a gas tank. The painting is unsaturated and realistic. It was painted in 1940 just after the beginning of world war 2.
The main aspects of the painting
Edward Hopper, Gas (1940).
A detailed view
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It can also be compared with the Ash can movement which also had this dark tone with unsaturated and dark colors.
In my opinion, Hopper's style is following impressionism with some more details added to it, in a more modern era.
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