A Stroke of the Beard! Part I - An Extremely Short Musing for an Extremely Short Beard.

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            "Maybe watercolor was too easy for Hopper — he was good at it — and maybe the 1920s artist-colony summers were too relaxing. He needed resistance, and in the awkwardness of oil painting, the grit of the city, and the Great Depression, he got it. In the 1930s the work toughens up and turns strange.
In the country he tended to paint houses as if they were public monuments, from a respectful distance. In the city no distances are respected. Hopper’s eye is everywhere. He peeps through apartment windows, catches people undressed, depressed, lost in thought, just plain lost. He looks over shoulders, down women’s dresses."

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/04/arts/design/04hopp.html

 I think i need resistance too.
Sometimes i need it to be a little ugly, a little difficult.
I want to be challenged, sometimes i want it to be hard for me to like it, and then i like it all the more.

Like the skin in this Edward Hopper painting.. it's a little gross, a little ugly. At least to me it is. But... I like it.

P.S. Next time both the beard and the musings get longer.... much, much longer.

With love,
When Life Gives You Lemons

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