by flagamuffin

Illustrator Dean Rohrer has been playing around with an American classic. Using Photoshop, he has been taking the figures out of Edward Hopper paintings. His thinking is formal--do the paintings work when you take the supposed subject out? It turns out they do--in fact, they look great!

These paintings are seriously beautiful. Without the subjects, you can sort of read depressing dystopian commentary into all of them, which is the best part.