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| American painter Edward Hopper famously painted 'Ground Swell' in late August and early September 1939. He was known for painting melancholy images of alienation in daily life. This masterpiece shows friends out sailing on a sunny day, watching a bell buoy bobbing in the waves. It is believed that this masterpiece was done as a foreshadowing of World War II. The ocean in 'Ground Swell' thus parallels those "waves of anger and fear," while its buoy sounds the alarm. The painting ironically happened to be made in the weeks of Hitler's first onslaught. Hopper's art doesn't simply transmit the racket of the age, it takes America's noisy pop culture and gives it high art's silent treatment. |
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