Edward Hopper was a frequent movie goer, and many of his paintings depicting cinemas and theaters stress the theme of loneliness. His theaters are often semi deserted with a few people isolated within the painting. As his work progressed, he found it harder to find suitable subjects in which he would be able to portray this loneliness through. His paintings represent the mythical landscape of the American dream.
There is hope within his paintings, as the frozen moments of pain and suffering do not create victims. All of the people representing in his paintings "are looking for something - looking out through windows, into themselves, probing the darkness, examining the world in their coffee cup."*
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*http://www.socialistreview.org.uk/article.php?articlenumber=8927
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