“Не буває тираній, які б не намагалися обмежити мистецтво, бо вони бачать його силу. Тільки мистецтво передає почуття.”

- Володимир Зеленський, Президент України

Kerry James Marshall

(c) Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Joseph and Jory Shapiro Fund by exchange
7 am Sunday Morning, 2003
, 304.8 x 548.64 cm
acrylic, canvas banner

7am Sunday Morning (2003) references Edward Hopper’s painting Early Sunday Morning (1930).

Like Hopper, Marshall presents a scene from everyday life in the early morning. 7am Sunday Morning is a large painting on unstretched canvas which contains the large distortion of a lens-flare. Various visual planes overlap each other. On the one side there is the neighborhood of Marshall’s studio as calm and serene, while on the other there is a visual effect of refracted light that is descriptive of a photographic image. The relative lack of activity and the soft tints of colour give this painting a tranquility, something that rather contrasts with the neighbourhood's more animated daily reality.