Drive Through

[RSL]

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[Rob C]

A sinister streak! Keep driving right on and don't look round.

Rob

[francois]

Yes, a truly frightening place.

[Jeremy Roussak]

I quite like it, but I don't get the fear, I confess: the gabled house in the background would reassure me.

Anyway, what is it?

Jeremy

[Otto Phocus]

I am afraid I am not "getting" this photograph.

Can you share your intentions?

[petermfiore]

As frightening as the inky blackness of Hopper's "GAS"...

Peter

[Rob C]

As frightening as the inky blackness of Hopper's "GAS"...

Peter

Like my French wood experience: though in broad daylight, same panic of get the hell out.

Rob C

[RSL]

As frightening as the inky blackness of Hopper's "GAS"...

Peter

Hi Peter, I know a "Gas Station" by Hopper that's in color, but maybe there's one I've missed. Like most people I love the Impressionists, and I'm impressed by Bierstadt's ability to convey the actual feeling of the mountains, But Edward Hopper has been my favorite painter for many decades. He grabs me and shakes me in a way that's quite powerful. And, as you evidently did, for some reason, this picture felt Hopperish to me.

[petermfiore]

Hi Peter, I know a "Gas Station" by Hopper that's in color, but maybe there's one I've missed. Like most people I love the Impressionists, and I'm impressed by Bierstadt's ability to convey the actual feeling of the mountains, But Edward Hopper has been my favorite painter for many decades. He grabs me and shakes me in a way that's quite powerful. And, as you evidently did, for some reason, this picture felt Hopperish to me.

I'm sure this is the one you know...The road, going into dark, is the start  a very awful journey.

Peter

[RSL]

Yes. That's the one. I guess one reason it grabs me is because on many a trip through the west I've stopped to gas up at dusk and then driven on into the dark. I once wrote a poem about it: http://www.russ-lewis.com/Poetry/Poems/NightComesOn.html