Drie gezichten op Bratislava, Hainburg en Gönyü 1930 - 1931

Berti Hoppe compiled this photo album page with views of Bratislava, Hainburg, and Gönyü. It makes me think about ways to use photography as a starting point for a painting. There's this idea that a painter needs to choose a subject; maybe the subject chooses you? Sometimes the subject is a thing, place, or person, but sometimes it's an attitude, a feeling. What was Hoppe feeling when they saw these three views? Did they feel something in common? I imagine the act of creating something like this as a form of embodied expression. As an artist, you take an idea and translate it, not word for word, but feeling for feeling, so that somebody else can see what you feel. I like to look at the work of painters like Hoppe, in order to see the world a little bit differently.