O Farol em Duas Luzes, Cape Elizabeth, Maine, Estados Unidos (The Lighthouse at Two Lights) - Edward Hopper

O Farol em Duas Luzes, Cape Elizabeth, Maine, Estados Unidos (The Lighthouse at Two Lights) - Edward Hopper
Cape Elizabeth - Estados Unidos
Metropolitan Museum of Arts, Nova York, Estados Unidos
OST - 74x109 - 1929

In this work, Hopper isolates the dramatic silhouette of a lighthouse against an open expanse of blue sky. Set on a rocky promontory in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, the architecture is bathed in bright sunlight offset by dark shadows. Standing proudly upright and seen from below, the lighthouse at Two Lights seems to symbolize a resolute resistance, even refusal, to submit to change or nature. For Hopper, who had been summering in Maine since 1914, the lighthouse also signified a pleasurable reprieve from life in New York.