Ground Swell

Description

Ground Swell

Title: The Ground Swell

Artist: Edward Hopper

Period: 1882 – 1967

Culture: Maritime paintings

Original Medium: Oil on canvas

About:

Edward Hopper’s lifelong enthusiasm for the sea developed when he was a boy in Nyack, New York, then a prosperous Hudson River port with an active shipyard.

Years later, in 1934, he and his wife built a house and studio in South Truro, Massachusetts, where he produced a number of oil paintings and watercolors manifesting his avid interest in nautical subjects.

The blue sky, sun-kissed figures, and vast rolling water strike a calm note in the picture; however, the visible disengagement of the figures from each other and their noticeable preoccupation with the bell buoy placed at the center of the canvas call into question this initial sense of serenity.

The lone dark element in a sea of blues and whites, the buoy confronts the small catboat in the middle of an otherwise empty seascape.

Its purpose, to emit a warning sound in advance of unseen or imminent danger, renders its presence in the picture ominous. During the time that Hopper worked on that painting, from August to September 15, 1939, World War II broke out in Europe.

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