Excursion into Philosophy — Edward Hopper

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  4. See glpiggy.net/excursions-into-philosophy-unsung-work- … Hopper and his wife liked to call this painting, ‘Plato reread too late’. It’s a great painting, regardless of the readings in the tea leaves.

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    1. I made a cup of herbal tea and this is the reading I got. When most famous artists paint a couple alone together it implies sex in one of its tenses. I think the green grass brilliantly lit on the outside means that he should make hay while the sun shines. The open window is self-explanatory. The woman (?) lying on the bed with her posterior exposed has two meanings. First it means that great famous artists just can’t pass up painting a (woman’s) posterior whenever possible. The other meaning is that she is bored and has gone to sleep. The open book is titled, ‘Sex for Virgin Dummies’. That half of it has been gone through is an indication that the man is really a dummy. His being fully clothed means that not only is he a virgin, but he must have skipped past the part where he is instructed to remove his clothes. The picture on the wall, the angle of the sunlight on the floor and his left foot forward are rife with sexuality that is beyond the purview of this commentary and I ran out of tea leaves. It appears that the reclining model is wearing a shoe backwards on her right foot. I am afraid to even delve into the meaning of that.

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  5. […] solitary figure is likewise presented to us as sun-drenched creature (e.g., The Barber Shop [1931], Excursion Into Philosophy [1959], A woman in the Sun [1961], and so on and on).  In other words, it wasn’t so much just […]

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