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Dike Blair: Matinee

Dike Blair: Matinee

Blair, Dike
Molesworth, Helen

Hardcover

General ArtIndividual ArtistsPainting Instruction

Publisher Price: $30.00

ISBN10: 196188318X
ISBN13: 9781961883185
Publisher: Karma, New York
Published: Nov 26 2024
Pages: 72
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.90 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

Blair's painterly use of mise-en-scène evokes the influence of Edward Hopper's cinema-inspired tableaux

Published with Edward Hopper House.

This volume builds on a developing body of scholarship linking the American painters Dike Blair (born 1952) and Edward Hopper (1882-1967) to each other. In both Hopper's tableaux and Blair's mise-en-scènes, light is a character in its own right, whether casting an eerie pallor on a desolate interior or illuminating the lip of a half-drunk glass; both artists imply narratives without offering definitive plots, inviting the viewer to stitch together a story from images and absences. Matinee foregrounds the realism of Blair and Hopper within the context of the utter irreality of the movies, lambent and liminal. Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, organized by Helen Molesworth at the Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center in Nyack, New York, this volume features a conversation between Molesworth and Blair that takes as its jumping-off point Hopper's painting New York Movie (1939).

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