Satire-An Unamorous Sentiment

Hopper's painted a sober couple with an unamorous sentiment; two lovers with faces too distant, with hands not touching, not feeling... just being realistic and sensible, reflecting on a tomorrow that was coming. The exterior colors are of a depressing dark, and the interior ones are mixed with bright ones...with an ivory tone consuming their sober faces; why are they staring into nothingness, sensing sadness? We can't feel what they feel, or hear what they hear, but their thoughtfulness is as intense as the evening' whisper. Theirs was an era when Elvis was the undisputed king, and his music was played on an old-fashioned record player; perhaps his blues were the ones they loved to sing, but the pretty boy from Tennessee was much younger and happier than they ever were, not wearing a blue t-shirt, brown slacks and a classic hairdo, and he rode in his red Chrevolet with a style that was envied by everyone in Hollywood. Hopper's theme should have been much livelier than this, not as morose as his summer's evening melancholic portrait; and who could judge him for expressing himself in a such way? Perhaps it was a realistic scene he had experienced with his fiancee, observe the artist's rendition of the unpleasant mood he was in... and shouldn't have he painted it with a more intimate and amorous sentiment? Copyright 2009 by Andrew Crisci