Throughout the gradually all-consuming encroachment of the Industrial Revolution and its unaesthetic progeny, art has slowly shied away from the sentimental representation of the cities and everyday scenes in which we exist. Darkening over time from the bright heyday of the Impressionists’ take on Paris and the French countryside, to Hopper’s epochal modern era Nighthawks, the perception of our manmade environments seems to have taken – according to the art of the twentieth century – a final turn towards utter disenchantment.
Enter John Sanchez and his softly focused streetscapes of dewy asphalt and diffused lights. In them, we see a resurrection of lost sweetness from the retired flesh of the dismal. The late night vistas capture what many dreamy denizens who have spent countless hours behind the wheel of a car waiting, perhaps, for a light to turn green, have felt on certain nostalgic nights – the cathartic romance of a certain resignation to one’s trapped circumstance. In doing so, Sanchez returns us to the perspective that our world is, to this day, charmed.
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