Analysis Of Edward Hopper

628 Words2 Pages
bulb-icon

Recommended: Edward hopper artists analysis

Ashley Stoddart
Visual Analysis
February 23, 2014
Professor Lemay
New York Office, Edward Hopper, 1962
Edward Hopper’s painting, New York Office, expands forty-and-a-half inches by a little over fifty-five inches. A young women is the only full visible character, which she is placed inside of an office, located in the middle of the painting. Behind the young women are two other figures that are hard to make out. The overall composition of the painting is well balanced and guides the viewer’s eyes. To the left is a tall structure, almost like an apartment building. The building sitting next to the office creates a dark alley that is only visible half-way.
Edward Hopper, creator of New York Office, Office in a Small City, Nighthawks, and many other similar masterpieces, took the art world under his wing with his works of art. Hopper’s art career took flight just around the time The Great Depression began. However, instead of being affected by The Great Depression, Hopper was becoming very well known. In 1920, Hopper had his first solo show at the Whitney Studio Club. Hopper’s painti...

Show More
Related

  • Analyzing Max Dupain's 'Advertisement For Hoover'

    517 Words  | 2 Pages

    Max Dupain’s selection of the letters and the hoover vaccum clearly links the photograph to the tradition of still life. The main subject in this photograph is the large, bold arrangement of letters that are selected and carefully placed to create beautiful shadows that are cast across the page by the light of the hoover vacuum. Unlike other artists Dupain has not used other studio lighting, but intead has used the hoover vaccum, behind the objects. The lighting from the hoover vaccum creates immense and elongated shadows that are cast off the page. Dupain uses the perfect alignment of the objects to create a powerful and a potent advertisement for the Hoover.

    Read More

  • Comparison of Painting of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart and Charles Willson Peale

    750 Words  | 2 Pages

    On Saturday, March 15, 2014, I visited the Metropolitan Museum in New York. The gallery #753, which is a part of so-called American Wing, features oil paintings of the revolutionary period in America. The paintings seen in this gallery celebrate heroes and hard-fought battles of the new nation. The most popular type of painting of that time remained portraiture. Portraits in extremely large numbers figured in interiors, where they were arranged to convey not only domestic, but political messages as well. Hence, it is natural, that such iconic figure like George Washington became a model for numerous artists of that era, including Gilbert Stuart and Charles Willson Peale, for whom Washington actually sat. Two exceptional portraits of Washington, the general and the the first President of the United States are highlighted in this paper.

    Read More

  • Summary Of Pulse By Josephine Birdsell

    940 Words  | 2 Pages

    The author illustrates the “dim, rundown apartment complex,” she walks in, hand and hand with her girlfriend. Using the terms “dim,” and “rundown” portrays the apartment complex as an unsafe, unclean environment; such an environment augments the violence the author anticipates. Continuing to develop a perilous backdrop for the narrative, the author describes the night sky “as the perfect glow that surrounded [them] moments before faded into dark blues and blacks, silently watching.” Descriptions of the dark, watching sky expand upon the eerie setting of the apartment complex by using personification to give the sky a looming, ominous quality. Such a foreboding sky, as well as the dingy apartment complex portrayed by the author, amplify the narrator’s fear of violence due to her sexuality and drive her terror throughout the climax of the

    Read More

  • Lightner Museum Observation

    1093 Words  | 3 Pages

    This painting is set within what seems to be the nineteenth century. One can infer this information based on the clothing, furniture, and architectural styles prevalent in the picture. The main figure that is central in the piece, the older man, fits the role of what appears to be a teaching position, where the boys that surround him are his students. The scene displayed here is one of an examination day. Each boy must t...

    Read More

  • Analysis Of FYB By Zadie Smith

    808 Words  | 2 Pages

    So I attempted to use this mentality whilst exploring the Highline, allowed the mindset to fill me with energy and then reflected on what I liked and didn’t like about the limitless attitude once I walked back towards Gansevoort Street. When I saw Kathryn Andrews’ “Sunbathers II” piece, I went inside the piece, and smiled while my cousin took a photo of me. I then continued to roamed through Chelsea while observing the people, billboards, paintings and the skyline, and was struck by the Sleepwalker sculpture. When Zadie Smith comes face-to-face with Corona’s “Find Your Beach” advertisement, she begins to analyze and find possible interpretations of the billboard sign. I then began to examine the Sleepwalker sculpture and discussed several potential inferences towards Manhattan the artwork might have with my cousin Michelle. I then got some stracciatella gelato, and Michelle got a coffee. With my recent purchases in hand, I was taken surprise by Andrews’ “Sunbathers I”. Michelle and I laughed

    Read More

  • Into the World There Came a Soul Called Ida

    1034 Words  | 3 Pages

    The painting is a large painting it is almost five feet tall and four feet wide. It is an oil painting on traditional canvass. The color choice is very dark and gloomy. It serves the purpose of putting the viewer in a somber mood. From the first glance you can tell that this is a sad setting. To some viewers Ida might bring a feeling of disgust, however, after closer inspection of the painting, the inner beauty seeps out. The black backdrop works to bring Ida out to the viewer. The fact that Albright was able to take a young and pretty model, transform her into an almost “Walking Dead” type creation from his own mind, shows that Albright had a very creative mind. The patterns of the carpet, along with a tear in the fabric beneath the chair she sits on give the carpet a life of its own, distinct, yet worn from time and abuse, much like Ida herself. The texture of the vanity behind her is duller. He gives no real definition to the outline of the lower drawers, there was nothing in there of any significance, but it works as a great background for Ida's leg.

    Read More

  • Alfred Hitchcock Rear Window

    736 Words  | 2 Pages

    Hopper's work is an unmistakable prologue to American abstract expressionism. The geometrical shadows on the dividers at early afternoon and the nature of the light on the items conjure deliberation. Mark Rothko once said that he never preferred inclining lines in canvases as for their situation they were supported by the light that goes into the spaces. The inclining lines that Rothko alludes to are shadows on the divider made from light, yet past the legitimization is the surface that Hopper accomplishes with his

    Read More

  • Erick Fishl´s Scarsdale Painting

    670 Words  | 2 Pages

    Eric Fishl’s Scarsdale is a painting that is done on three canvases. When placed together, they appear to make one whole picture. The focal point of the painting is the woman, dressed in a white gown and veil. It appears that she is wearing a wedding dress, since the dress is white and includes a veil. To the left is a cat and to the right is a dog. The woman represents the focal point, not only because she is the largest figure in the painting, but also because everything else is slightly in darkness. Fischl’s cat and dog can only be made out if one looks at the painting carefully. Fischl also paints the woman so that she almost appears to be floating in air. One can see that she is sitting on a chair, but the dog is directly under her, and he does not really use perspective to make it clear that the woman is not floating in midair.

    Read More

  • A Day at the Norton Simon Museum

    1220 Words  | 3 Pages

    We walked and walked looking at each art piece, which were all well displayed. Then as I looked at the back wall, a large oil canvas painting looked right back at me. I could feel its pain and so then, I decided to do my paper on this piece. The painting was The Ragpicker by Manet. (The Ragpicker. Edouard Manet.1865.Oil on canvas.) The painting was so enormous that it was hard to miss. Such a huge painting for one man, it almost looked life-like. The dimensions of this work is 76.75” x 51.25”. This scene seems to take place of a lower-class man late in his age, probably near his seventies, appears to be looking out of the corner of his eye. The ...

    Read More

  • Painting: Nighthawks, by Edward Hopper

    2143 Words  | 5 Pages

    On display at the Art Institute of Chicago, Nighthawks is an oil and canvas work that represents Edward Hopper at his most iconic and popular. Hopper more than often drew on his immediate surroundings for in...

    Read More

  • September Eleventh

    2439 Words  | 5 Pages

    I see the three bodies in his painting as people falling from the 110th floor of the South Tower. I see the broken debris and splintered wood as pieces of steel and glass collapsing to the ground, taking firefighters and innocent people with it.

    Read More

  • A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

    1183 Words  | 3 Pages

    A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, located in the Art Institute of Chicago, is one of the most recognizable paintings of the 19th century, a painting made by Frenchman Georges Seurat. Finished in 1886, it has gained much of its recognition over the time of its completion; the pop culture of today has played a pivotal role into the popularity of it. An example of that is being apart in one of the most recognizable scene in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, where one of the main characters is solely staring at the painting until he can’t even recognize the artwork. This painting also gets much attention because it was an early example of the style of pointillism, at the time; pointillism was becoming a new way of expressing one self with the new technique. It also brought upon about the way we saw paintings, and what we gained from the artwork as whole. In all this painting has become an icon in the art scene, due to the technique it used, and how much of an impact it has had in today culture.

    Read More

  • Various Art Critiques

    929 Words  | 2 Pages

    As I enter the Gioconda and Joseph King Gallery at the Norton Museum of Art the first thing that Caught my attention was a painting measuring approximately at 4 ft. by 10 ft. on the side wall in a well- light area. As I further examine the painting the first thing I notice is that it has super realism. It also has color, texture, implied space, stopped time, and that it is a representational piece. The foreign man sitting on the chair next to a bed has a disturbed look on his face and is deep into his own thoughts. It’s as if someone he loved dearly just experienced a tragic and untimely death. He is in early depression. I could feel the pain depicted in his eyes. A book titled The Unquiet Grave lying open on the floor by the unmade bed suggesting something is left unresolved. The scattered photos and papers by the bedside cause redintegration. The picture of Medusa’s head screaming on the headboard is a silent scream filled with anger and pain, yet it cannot be heard. I feel as if I am in the one sitting in the chair and I can feel the anger, and regret.

    Read More

  • Marshall Mcluhan's The Medium Is The Massage

    1474 Words  | 3 Pages

    What is he trying to tell us?” For example, on page 129 we see a black and white photograph of the Carver theatre in Birmingham, Alabama, and above the marquee reads, “Suspense! Excitement! Susan Hayward’s ‘Back Street’ and ‘Damn the Defiant.’ ”

    Read More

  • In An Artist's Studio By Christina Rossetti Summary

    1170 Words  | 3 Pages

    Christina Rossetti's poem, “In An Artist’s Studio”, explores how men foster a need for control by creating unrealistic expectations for women through their fantasies. Through the use of repetition, contrast of imagery, and symbolism, Rossetti guides us through the gallery inside of an artist’s mind, portraying the fantasies that give him a sense of control over the women he creates.

    Read More

More about Analysis Of Edward Hopper

Open Document