Soir Bleu ☳ Hopper ☵ Canvas sunset

Soir Bleu ☳ Hopper ☵ Canvas sunsetSoir Bleu (1914) by Edward Hopper was painted in Paris, and titled in French (Blue Evening). It depicts an assortment of people gathered on a terrace, sitting around small tables with Chinese lanterns overhead. On the far left, a man smokes a cigarette; in the center, another smoker and a military officer share a table with a clown in bright white costume; a heavily made up woman stands behind them; and on the far right sit a couple in fancy dress.

The fight between man and beast

as an African king

alongside other exotic and fanciful creatures

Maria Altmann

his left hand forming a mudra of power with two upturned fingers from which rise a cloud of smoke

"The cow-puncher took wild pleasure in existing

The Buffalo Signal (1900) by Frederic Remington

or Dante's Divine Comedy

Here he depicts a densely overcast day with some wind

the cowboy is attired in a wide-brimmed hat

which led to the art movement's name: Fauvism

Symbolically