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Originally Posted by TheAmazingOopah 
@kathycf. Good Hopper there. Once again indeed the loneliness theme, but also once again the great use of colours. Somehow, there really seems a united bonding between the blue, red and yellow. I also see the attraction of Hylas and the Nymphs. Normally I'm not into the classic "pale, bare breasted beauty" thing, that sometimes seems more like a requirement for the paintings from that era, than that it got really painted because of the beauty. Like, the crowd just wants to see boobies. Here however, it's fitting, and I also think it's beautiful in a way. And it's indeed hard to explain why.
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Someone at another forum I belong to mentioned she felt Hopper's paintings were sort of the visual version of Raymond Carver's writing, as he was quite "spare" in his style and often wrote about themes of loneliness and isolation.
RE: Waterhouse, he wasn't so much an artist who painted the pale bare breasted women. Many of his works were based on Classical mythology (so yes, some boobies there
), but also Shakespeare and Tennyson. Here is
The Lady of Shallot.
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~suvir/fa...of-shalott.jpg