Self Portrait (Picture of Edward Hopper)

Self-portrait - oil painting by Edward Hopper, created in 1903-1906. Currently located at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. History and subject matter

In the first decade of the nineteenth century, Hopper painted a number of self-portraits, very similar in style. This was the only moment in the works in which the facial features of the person being presented allow it to be identified. Throughout the artist's work, the characters presented have typical features, ie there is no way to identify a model or model. Hooper introduced himself as a young man with full lips and green eyes. The look tells us a lot about the personality of the model: it is a young man of strong character, confident. The way of depicting a bright, light-hearted face and white collar seems to be a dialogue with old masters like Rembrandt. The dark tones used to repaint characters are perhaps embodiments of what Hopper observed in his master Robert Henri's workshop, referring to Manet's work in art.

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