{"id":336,"date":"2021-11-18T10:38:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T10:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/angelaaguilar\/?p=336"},"modified":"2021-11-25T04:35:56","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T04:35:56","slug":"expressionism-fauvism-early-20th-century-edward-hopper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/angelaaguilar\/2021\/11\/18\/expressionism-fauvism-early-20th-century-edward-hopper\/","title":{"rendered":"Expressionism, Fauvism, & Early 20th Century \u2013 Edward Hopper"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Edward Hopper<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Edward Hopper, born in 1882, New York, was an American painter who was known for his realistic depictions of everyday urban scenes that would shock the viewer in the realization of the strangeness of familiar surroundings. His art is well known among many contemporary painters to writers, and even photographers and filmmakers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The film \u201cPennies From Heaven,\u201d Herbert Ross, 1981.<\/em> Remember this image for later!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Liminal Loneliness<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Edward Hopper, \u201cGas,\u201d 1940.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Edward Hopper, \u201cHouse by the Railroad,\u201d 1925.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Edward Hopper, \u201cCape Cod Morning\u201d 1950.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Hopper was even a strong influence on Pop art and New Realist paintings during the 1960s and 1970s. A man of many traits, Hopper was initially trained as an illustrator but later studied painting under Robert Henri, and even began to do watercolours and oil paintings as well. Being influenced by Henri and the Ashcan School, Hopper’s subjects revolved around commonplaces of urban life. However, what his paintings entail are still anonymous figures, geometric forms, and photographic-like compositions that radiate a sense of loneliness; urban isolation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hopper’s work always shows deliberate decision-making of framing in his paintings no matter what subject it may be. His narratives depict moments that are forever suspending between ‘what was’ and the ‘next’\u2014moments that are never really resolved but are seemingly frozen in time. There is something in his work that almost effortlessly emits a sense of stories that are repressed beneath the calm facade of the scenes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Edward Hopper, \u201cEast Side Interior,\u201d 1922.<\/em> (Note: This composition was an inspiration for the film “Manhattan<\/em>” by Woody Allen in 1979!)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Edward Hopper, \u201cNighthawks,\u201d 1942.<\/em> Look familiar? It should!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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I’m really glad to have found Edward Hopper on the list of artists we could research for this week’s blog post. It seems that I had already been a fan of Hopper without even realizing it, and it’s because of his painting, Nighthawks. I don’t recall when I saw it, but this piece had left such an impression on me that I was completely starstruck when I saw it pop up on my search results. I was completely drawn in by his use of cool and complementary colours, and most striking of all (to me, at least) was his composition. It seems so photographic to me and I can even picture myself taking a photo with the same perspective; and in all honesty, I probably have. That’s what I like so much about Hopper’s work\u2014how relatable it is, no matter how distant it may feel. I don’t know where any of his paintings are located or if they even exist, but the settings are so familiar that I can see myself in them. Hopper captures so many commonplaces that everyone has been to something similar at least once in their life, and because of this, it feels as if the moment is just within my grasp\u2014but I know I haven’t truly been there myself, and it just keeps me thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cEdward Hopper.\u201d Encyclop\u00e6dia Britannica<\/em>, Encyclop\u00e6dia Britannica, Inc., https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Edward-Hopper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHans Rudi Erdt.\u201d Artvee<\/em>, https:\/\/artvee.com\/artist\/hans-rudi-erdt\/.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schjeldahl, Peter, and Jeremiah Moss. \u201cEdward Hopper and American Solitude.\u201d The New Yorker<\/em>, 29 May 2020, https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2020\/06\/08\/edward-hopper-and-american-solitude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Edward Hopper, born in 1882, New York, was an American painter who was known for his realistic depictions of everyday urban scenes that would shock the viewer in the realization of the strangeness of familiar surroundings. His art is well known among many contemporary painters to writers, and even photographers and filmmakers. Liminal Loneliness Hopper […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13166,"featured_media":340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/angelaaguilar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/angelaaguilar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/angelaaguilar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/angelaaguilar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/angelaaguilar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/angelaaguilar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":386,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/angelaaguilar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions\/386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/angelaaguilar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/angelaaguilar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/angelaaguilar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/angelaaguilar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}