Edward Hopper “Approaching a City” 1946 oil on canvas 27 x 36
Edward Hopper – Born July 22, 1882 Nyack, New York (USA)
Edward Hopper started out as a commercial artist and illustrator. He later was drawn to painting American Realism. Hopper depicted a mood and sense of isolation and alienation within urban cities.
Edward Hopper (although mainly known for his oil paintings such as "Approaching a City") is also known for his watercolor paintings. His art mainly revolved around the theme of the aspects of american life and landscape. Examples would include "Nighthawks" (a painting made in 1942) which shows people from that exact time period in a diner and "New York Restaurant" (a painting made in 1922) which mainly shows people (of a high social class) eating in a fancy restaurant.
ReplyDeleteTravel is one of the main themes Hopper addresses in his paintings such as approaching a city.Hopper eliminates the bright colors and puts in dark ones showing the true feelings of curiosity and anxiety that you get, as if arriving for the first time to the modern city life full of unfulfilled truths waiting.This painting emphasizes what lies in the future ahead while knowing nothing about the city. What Edward Hopper emphasizes in this painting is a train ride that shows little of the city but, shows a predictable yet unknown ride that shows being in the city or out of it preparing for what lies beyond the city.
ReplyDeleteEdward Hopper has pieces in many different museums but 39 pieces of his work reside in the Whitney Museum of American Art. Some of those pieces are:
ReplyDeletePainter and Model, Bridge in Paris, Le Pont des Arts, Apres-midi de juin, Les lavoirs a Pont Royal, Louvre and Boat Landing, The El Station, Summer Interior< The Wine Shop, American Village.
All of these paintings were done between the years 1902-1912.
Edward Hopper has a self portrait in the Whitney museum. It is oil on canvas, 25 1x 20 inches big. He painted it in 1925 and he finished in 1930. His self portrait is expressive and shows a disturbing truth. In his drawing he expresses his world around him. Its interesting because all his landscapes have the same lonely mood as his self portrait.
ReplyDeleteEdward hopper is the artist who did city scape.this work of art was done in oil paint that took five years to complete.
ReplyDeleteHopper sold his first painting, Sailing in 1911, which he painted over an earlier self-portrait.Hopper was thirty-one, and though he hoped his first sale would lead to others in short order, his career didn't catch fire for many more years to come.Shortly after his father’s death that same year, Hopper moved to the Washington Square apartment in the Greenwich Village section of New York City where he would live for the rest of his life.
ReplyDeleteThis Edward Hopper painting shows an excellent example of one point perspective. The train tracks are larger in the frontal picture plane and appear as if they are disappearing on the horizon line. All the train track lines converge at one single vanishing point.
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ReplyDeletePaintings such as Nighthawks (Art Institute of Chicago, 1942) convey a mood of loneliness and desolation by their emptiness or by the presence of anonymous, non-communicating figures.
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