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30 Aug 2007, 9:06 pm

The paintings of Edward Hopper's seem like they were painted from the point of view of someone who was on the spectrum i.e. on the outside looking in. When someone asks me what Asperger's is like for me, I have said to them to look at an Edward Hopper painting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Hopper

http://www.museumsyndicate.com/artist.php?artist=54 - browse through his paintings

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30 Aug 2007, 9:31 pm

Yeah I see what you mean, the characters seem so lonely/depressed/lost in their head.

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30 Aug 2007, 9:54 pm

I recall watching a documentary abut Edward Hopper. He married Josephine Nivison-Hopper, their living arrangement was very strange.

He divided his studio where he painted, cooked and slept, in half.

Josephine had her half and Edward had his half of the room, and neither was allowed to cross the border. Very weird.

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On July 19th, 1924, he married Josephine (Jo) Nivison, a talented but not very successful artist. They were two very different personalities. Hopper was a quiet, introverted but good-humoured man who did not waste words. Once, when given a prestigious award, he made the shortest acceptance speech in history: he stood before his admiring audience, said “Thanks”, then walked away. You don’ get any more taciturn than that.

Jo, on the other hand, was a competitive, energetic woman who couldn’t stop talking and couldn’t sit still for five minutes. It must have rankled her to live in her husband’s shadow, but she was devoted to him and supported him throughout his career. After they wed, at her insistence, she was the only female model he ever used. His career was beginning to take off now and he could afford to give up his detested job as a commercial illustrator and concentrate on his painting.

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31 Aug 2007, 1:06 am

I see what you're saying. Besides the isolation theme, I also notice that the paintings are emotionally fairly neutral. The scenes are very honest to life with nothing overtly sentimental. A lot of them remind me of what I would see while staring out the window of a bus or train. You see backs of people talking, people hurrying along, some partially cut off from view.

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31 Aug 2007, 1:17 am

There was a man on the news about two years ago for had AS and was an artist. He would look at an image and then draw the image.

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31 Aug 2007, 1:46 am

Maybe these guys? Richard Wawro or Stephen Wiltshire, autistic savant artists.
Also, compare them with Edward Hopper's paintings.

Richard Wawro
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pvys7263DNc[/youtube]
Stephen Wiltshire
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9973WIjU8Ag[/youtube]

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31 Aug 2007, 2:00 am

It certainly looks like I have felt more often then not.

(Off topic,I really liked your utube.......have you ever posted it here?It's worth watching)

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