Edward Hopper - Painter of Alienation

Find a written version of this video at If you are interested in painters and painting, try my post on Renoir at: If you like art in general, you may also like my presentation of Alfred Lord Tennyson’s stirring poem, ‘Ulysses’, here: For many years I have been interested in the phenomenon of psychological alienation that haunts our modern world. I think it found its clearest expression in the theories of the German-American psychologist, Erich Fromm, who was able to put into plain words the sense of disconnectedness from life felt by many people today. Then one day, while looking in a book at some reproductions of several paintings by the American painter, Edward Hopper, it struck me that here was alienation expressed in pictorial form. I decided then to make a film that would a