Les multiples références à ses oeuvres dans le cinéma contemporain et la reproduction intensive de quelques unes de ses peintures, ont rendu l'univers d'Edward Hopper familier à un large public. Sa figuration inclassable tisse un dialogue entre les apparences et la lumière, les évidences et les énigmes. En s'attachant à la vie personnelle de l'artiste dans le contexte de l'Amérique du XXème siècle, La Toile blanche d'Eward Hopper témoigne de l'indépendance farouche d'un peintre, conscient des enjeux de l'art de son temps, hostile à l'enfermement auquel pouvait le conduire un art moderne américain opposant réalisme et abstraction. Le film donne chair à l'artiste, transpose sa poésie réaliste et métaphysique.

 

DVD available with English and German audio versions.

The many references in the contemporary films to Edward Hopper's works, as well as the widespread reproduction of some of his paintings have made his universe familiar to many. His unclasifiable figurations weave a dialogue between appearances and light, between the unmistakeable and enigma. Focusing on the artist's personal life in the context of 20th century America, Edward Hopper and the Blank Canvas bears witness to a fiercely independent painter, who was aware of the issues of his era, and who was hostile to the imprisonment that a modern American art opposing realism and abstraction could lead him to. This film brings the artist to life, transposing his realist and metaphysical poetry.