new york pavements edward hopperIn Edward Hopper's realistic painting "New York Pavements", we see a figure shrouded in dark blue standing near the entrance to a city building. The faade of the building is rendered with precision, capturing the robust, detailed architecture typical of New York buildings of the period. The Corinthian columns and decorative touches on the stone contrast with the simplicity of the clothes, suggesting a dynamic between the temporal and the permanent,