Art and Film Friday; Vol. 12 - Paris, Texas

This clip is the opening scene from Wim Wender's Paris, Texas. I saw the 1984 movie for the first time last week and loved it. It's a rich and beautifully composed film - it was really fantastic and a visual inspiration.

Still from Paris, Texas
Still from Paris, Texas
Mark Tansey, Robbe-Grillet Cleansing Every Object in Sight, 1981, 72x72"

Still from Paris, Texas
Luke Barber-Smith, Grace, 2009, 43x34 inches, c-print

Still from Paris, Texas

Still from Paris, Texas
Jason Stopa, Untitled (Mirror Series) Oil on Canvas. 2009

Still from Paris, Texas
Robert Adams- from What We Bought - The New World, Denver, 1970-74 - from flickr user Jodan TateStill from Paris, Texas - this one already looks like a painting.
Still from Paris, Texas
Vija Celmins, Untitled Portfolio: Desert, Lithograph, 16x20", 1975

Still from Paris, Texas

Edward Hopper, Nightwawks, 1942 - photo of the piece in Chicago by flickr user Jing a Ling. I think a lot of the google photos of this work don't show the color accurately - this one is pretty close.Still from Paris, Texas
Phil Sims, Green Navigator, 2008

Still from Paris, Texas
Damien Loeb, Lolita, 2005, Oil on Linen, 36x84"

Image of the Late Day

Edward Hopper, The Lonely House, Etching, 20x25", 1923

Hopperesque

There's a flickr pool of all photography dedicated to or reminiscent of the painter Edward Hopper called Hopperesque. I culled a few choice images to share with you:

Gateway Nightwawk, by flickr member Briggate.com

so you had to cross the sea, by flickr member marco welt

l'abbraccio, by flickr member loungerie

by flickr member eman59

"The Stranger In Her Room", by flickr member pixyliao