Lisette Marasigan Ms. Jennifer Cook British Literature December 8, 2014 Nighthawks to Starry Night When looking at art you have to look from a deeper point of view, you have to look pass the surface and see the story within the artwork. This is shown when you compare and evaluate the each individual style; each artist takes with their paintings. While some difference between Nighthawks and Starry Night are noticeable, the similarities are pronounced. The famous painting, Nighthawks, by Edward Hopper was completed in 1942. The technique he used was an oil painting on an 84.1 by 152.4 centimeter canvas. The style is to interpret a view on Social Realism, also meaning a realistic portrayal of everyday life. In this painting you see people …show more content…
sitting in a downtown diner late at night. Hopper in Nighthawks was trying to capture the night-time effects of fluorescent lights, which just had come during the early 1940’s. The painting is showing three customers, who are each lost in their own thoughts yet gathered at an all-night diner with an employee. You notice that Hopper removed any place to an entrance, making you drawn to the different expressive possibilities of light playing in the diner. For example the single light bulb in the inside, which casts out through the diner’s a plate-glass window for the light to spill out onto the sidewalks creating different shadows. As well as the interior light is causing the surfaces in the diner to be reflective, seeing the yellow band of the interior wall in the window and counter-top also having reflections. The four unknown night owls seem disconnected with each other and those who view this painting. Edward Hopper unconsciously instilled symbols of human isolation and urban emptiness; the artist himself said his painting Nighthawks, “unconsciously, probably, I was painting the loneliness of a large city.” Another renowned painting is Starry Night, by Vincent van Gogh, which was completed in 1889.
The technique he used was oil paints on a 79.7 by 92.1 centimeter canvas. The style is of a Post-Impressionism, in other words means rather than using the natural interpretation of color, line and form he used more of his emotion to express what he was feeling towards the painting. The first thing you notice about Vincent van Gogh’s painting is probably the background which takes up most of the artwork. You notice the night sky having whirling clouds and filled with natural luminescent light from the stars and the bright crescent moon. The beautiful depicted night sky has the viewer’s eyes following the different movements from the clouds to each of the stars, keeping the onlookers involved with the painting. Another thing about this piece of art is what is below the sky was the rolling hills and an intimate town. The most dominate feature of the town is the tall steeple of the church, above the smaller buildings, Van Gogh is perhaps emphasized it to exhibit that it was placed there to give a sense of stability in a place that seems to be dark and secluded. An additional eye-catcher item is the enormous dark cypress tree giving the painting a feel of shady isolation. The gigantic structure makes interpreters of the creation feel depressed; however, there is the factor of hope even though the town is in a dark valley they have hope because they have protection of God from the darkness and He is shown through the brightness in the
sky. These two paintings are made by to different artist each with their own style. At glance you would think they had nothing in common and you can only see their differences and you are fairly right because Nighthawks is the city while Starry Night is more of a small isolated village. Also, the facto the two styles of the artists are completely different one is Social Realism and the other is Post-Impressionisms. Both paintings express sense of light nevertheless not the same kind the painting of Edward Hopper is focusing of the fluorescent man made light and Vincent van Gogh is centered on the natural luminous light from the stars and moon God created. However, there are similarities in these paintings both are depicted at night exhibits some sort of isolation in a “big” or “crowded” place and their way they deal with it, whether it be through thinking in a diner late at night or finding hope in a steeple of a church and the night sky.
During Vincent Van Gogh’s childhood years, and even before he was born, impressionism was the most common form of art. Impressionism was a very limiting type of art, with certain colors and scenes one must paint with. A few artists had grown tired of impressionism, however, and wanted to create their own genre of art. These artists, including Paul Gaugin, Vincent Van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Paul Cezanne, hoped to better express themselves by painting ...
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...
The Nighthawks by Edward Hopper is considered two-dimensional art. Some examples of two dimensional art is paintings, drawings and photographs. This painting is considered two-dimensional art because it was painted on a flat canvas and can only be observed in terms of height and width. This piece is not considered three-dimensional because it does not occupy space or have mass. Although this painting does not occupy space, it does imitate three-dimensional space or depth.
The life span of 37 years saw Vincent Willem van Gogh (Vincent) in creating beautiful works he dearly loved. Painting was an avenue, which allowed him to express his inner thoughts or vent his struggles. My decision to research on Vincent’s painting, Starry Night (1889) came with the inspiration from Don Mclean’s Song, Starry Starry Night where his lyrics spoke about Vincent’s life that further intrigued me in writing this paper.
We can see a clear representation of the impressionist that tended to completely avoid historical or allegorical subjects. In this painting, Monet’s painted very rapidly and used bold brushwork in order to capture the light and the color; include relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes. An insistence on what Monet called “a spontaneous work rather than a calculated one” – this in particular accounts for the sketchy and seemingly unfinished quality of the Impressionist paintings. In the texture, he played with the shadow and light and created variation in tone, he employs patches of depth and surface. The light in the painting come from back to the windmill, it is a light shines softly behind the houses and the windmill. He was shown each brushstroke in the painting. Balance is achieved through an asymmetrical placement of the houses and the most important the
In conclusion, Van Gogh used the elements above to create a man by himself in a field. He used color to represent feeling rather than represent realism of an event. The cool colors represent the field and happiness in his work. The warm colors represent the harshness of the day and could be a metaphor for life. He used scale and proportion to emphasis the overbearing sun. He also used proportion and scale to represent literally and figuratively how far away home was. The linear perspective was only evident to me after I really studied the used of lines. I followed the lines to the horizon and left side of the painting.
Imagine you can own one of the famous painting in the world. Which one would it be? What will you do with it? If I got to own a famous painting, I would hang it in my bedroom and I’ll show it to my family. In this situation, If needed to narrow it down it will be The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali or Nighthawks by Edward Hopper. These paintings are extremely different, and their artistic movement is opposite from one another. By the end of this essay, you’re going to know the differences and similarities of these paintings.
The composition of the painting takes place with the square of the canvas. The square is approximately 5' x 5'. A black frame surrounding the painting protrudes approximately 4" off the canvas. There is a 1" inlay between the canvas and frame. From this square, Reinhardt breaks the composition into six equal squares in three even rows. Texture is no where to be found in the painting. No visual indication of the artist's brush stroke is present. No varnished glare is given off by the piece. The entire work, including the frame, is completely matte. The squares take up the entire canvas in a checkerboard type arrangement. Each square is a slightly different shade of blue-black. It almost becomes impossible to see the difference between each square. The middle squares in the top and bottom rows shift more towards blue than the rest of the squares. The division of these middle squares become more obvious than the others. When the painting is looked at from a distance, it is almost impossible to see any of the squares at all. When looking from a far, all a viewer can see is a blackish blue canvas. As you stare longer into the painting, a halo begins to form around the corners of the canvas, creating a circle inside the square. Once you look away from the canvas, the circle is gone. With this observation in mind, we could say that the painting most definitely relies on the viewer. A viewer is required to look at the piece for its full affect. We could say that the squares in the painting are self-contained.
Vincent Van Gogh never gave up his style and insight in his early work compared to his later work. I will discuss the comparison of the Potato Eaters and Starry Night and even though there are obvious differences, the core of his passion and eccentricities can be seen.
In the following essay the painting Nighthawks by Edward Hopper will be analyzed to determine what messages the artist was trying to convey to the viewer, and the significance of the very detailed depiction of the figures occupying the diner. The realism style of the painting that contributes greatly to the intense effect on the viewer, chosen for this reason, will be explored as well. The somber and lonely mood of the painting will be analyzed as well as the aspects of the empty street and the sparsely populated diner. I will discuss how the painting accurately represents the Great Depression era it was painted to portray, why this specific medium was chosen and how it affects the painting itself.
This painting by Vincent Van Gogh is on display at the Art Institute of Chicago Museum, in the Impressionism exhibit. There are many things going on in this painting that catch the viewer’s eye. The first is the piece’s vibrant colors, light blues and browns, bright greens, and more. The brush strokes that are very visible and can easily be identified as very thick some might even say bold. The furniture, the objects, and the setting are easy to identify and are proportioned to each other. There is so much to see in this piece to attempt to explain in only a few simple sentences.
he artwork I chose to analyze is The Starry Night (June 1889) by Vincent Van Gogh.I
In this essay will be talking about and comparing between the traditional painting Starry night by Vincent Van Gogh and the digital movie poster for Midnight in Paris designed by the company Cardinal Communications USA. Starry Night is an artwork that was painted in 1889 in an asylum at Saint-Remy-de-Provience, France while the Midnight in Paris poster is digitally made somewhere in the USA by someone in that company sometime in 2010. While both these artworks are very different, they have some similarities.
Starting with visual elements I saw lines, implied depth, and texture. I see lines by him using lines created by an edge. Each line is curved not straight but it works with the piece. By using this he creates the piece to make it whole. He uses many curved lines within the painting I don’t know if there is a straight line in the whole thing. The next element I saw was implied depth. Using linear perspective you can see the mountains but they look smaller than the rest of the piece. They are the vanishing point in the back making it look as if you can walk down and they will get closer and closer to you. The last element that I saw was texture. They talk about Van Gogh’s painting, The Starry Night having texture through a two- dimensional surface, in which this painting has that similar feel. Van Gogh uses thick brush stokes on his paintings to show his feelings. There is actually a name for this called, Impasto,
Like many of Van Gogh’s paintings, Olive Trees commences as a landscape and expands into a complex work, disclosing influences from other times and places. Using the color theory and separated brushstrokes of the Impressionists, the movement and vivid colors of the Romantics, and lighting and composition inspired by Millet, Van Gogh achieves the potency and significance that characterizes his work. Van Gogh’s paintings can’t possibly be mistaken for those of another artist of his time because, despite the fact that all of his means have criterion, his end results do not.