Edward Hopper Essays

  • Analysis: Nighthawks By Edward Hopper

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    Edward Hopper's painting titled Nighthawks is his most successful as well as the most well-known piece of art in America. The oil on canvas painting was completed on January 21, 1942, during World War II. Shortly after it was completed, it was sold to the Art Institute of Chicago where it currently resides. The painting depicts American urban culture in the 1940's and is based on a restaurant in Hopper's New York Greenwich Village neighborhood. Hopper uses value and variety to direct the viewers

  • Art Research Paper: Edward Hopper

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    Chinwe Uduko ART 2200 March 2, 2015 Art Research Paper on Edward Hopper Throughout his career as an artist ever since he took the art world by storm in the 1920s, Edward Hopper was widely known for creating iconic images of rural and urban areas within the northeastern parts of the United States by exploring these different types of areas through medias such as oil paintings, watercolor paintings, and printmaking which also includes many of his etching prints as well. Unlike many aspiring artists

  • Nighthawks: An Image From 1942illustrated By Edward Hopper

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    “Nighthawks” is an image from 1942illustrated by Edward Hopper, which depicts three people, who seem to be customers, sitting at the counter of a small, outdoor, coffee shop. It also depicts and older man who seems to be the server behind the counter. Its night time in an urban area and all the surrounding shops are closed. The actions, background, and relationships in the image prove that the intended purpose of this image is to persuade “nighthawks” to stop by the coffee shop. One can conclude

  • Nighthawks: A 1942 Oil On Canvas Painting By Edward Hopper

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    Nighthawks is a 1942 oil on canvas painting by Edward Hopper that portrays people in a downtown diner late at night. Many artists have produced works that allude or respond to Nighthawks. Hopper influenced many of the Photorealists of the late 1960s and early 1970s, including Ralph Goings, who evoked Nighthawks in several paintings of diners. Visual artist Richard Estes painted a corner store in People's Flowers (1971) with the shop's large window reflecting the street and sky. Nighthawks painting

  • Comparing Carver's House By Raymond Carver And Edward Hopper

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    Carver and Edward Hopper have similar work. Carver was from oregon and live from 1938 to 1988. He was married and had two kids before he was twenty. He was known be and excessive drinker util 1977. Hopper was from New York and lived from 1882 to 1967. He created more than 800 known paintings. Although Carver is a short story writer and Hopper is an artist their work is really similar. They both show realism in the characters they use, the sitting , and the point of view. Carver and Hopper develop

  • Analyzing Edward Hopper's 'Automat'

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    Edward Hopper was a Realist painter born in 1882 who had a great influence on art in the mid-20th century. Hopper painted contemporary images of American life through a variety of mediums, notably oil and water colors, to illustrate the growing detachment between the American people from each other. The first image is “Automat,” painted in 1927 with oil paints measuring 28” x 36”. With “Automat,” the audience gets initial feelings of loneliness and empathy for the woman, wondering why she is sitting

  • Minimalism In 'Cape Cod Evening'

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    Edward Hopper was a painter who depicted life in America in the 1920’s. His work was unique, he created work that translated to the lives of americans during his era. Raymond Carver was an American short-story writer and poet, he was credited with reviving what was once thought of as a dying literary form. Both Hopper’s and Carvers art and writing, the characters overcome their crisis of communication, which progressively transforms them throughout the story. Minimalism affects the different types

  • Edward Hopper Nighthawks Essay

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    beginning of the 20th century, America experienced many cultural and social changes. These changes are portrayed through an art form called American Realism, which attempts to depict the ordinary American life at home during different time periods. Edward Hopper, a well-known realist painter displays many commonplace scenes in his work, capturing the isolation of city life. In 1942, following the Pearl Harbor bombing, he painted his famous Nighthawks painting, which displays the common themes of loneliness

  • Edward Hopper Art Analysis

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    Edward Hopper creates a work of art that depicts a late night scene. There is a lone woman staring into a cup of hot beverage in what looks like a cafe. The room seems empty and compared to the stark blackness outside, it is also brightly lit. She is wearing a green winter coat that has a fur collar and cuffs, suggesting the painting takes place during the cold autumn and winter months. She wears a yellow hat which is pulled low over her head. She does not appear to be smiling. She is holding the

  • Edward Hopper Research Paper

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    Edward Hopper once said, “No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination” (qtd. in “Edward Hopper Quotes”). Hopper started out his career as a struggling impressionist, leaving many aspects of his art up to the interpretation and imagination of the person looking at it. Hopper also traveled to Europe, in particular Paris, and here he worked with the unique lighting of the city to show more expression in his artwork through the symbols of light and darkness (Edward

  • Edward Hopper Nighthawks Analysis

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    different time periods. Edward Hopper became a well-known realist painter who displayed many common place scenes in his work, that capture the isolation of city life. In 1942, following the Pearl Harbor bombing, he painted his famous Nighthawks painting, which displayed the common themes of loneliness and in this case, wartime isolation, and uses Kairos, along with contrasting dark and light colors and four mysterious individuals, to bring out the deeper messages

  • Raymond Carver And Edward Hopper

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    Raymond Carver and Edward Hopper are two legends in the minimalist movement who through their own creative outlet inspired the movement. Carver expressed the idea of minimalism through short stories that he wrote, specifically focusing on Chef’s House and the theme of substance abuse in relationships. Another form of expressing minimalism used by Hopper would be through art. Hopper’s minimalist painting capture regular people in plain settings leaving the audience to imagine the scenario in which

  • Edward Hopper: Considered A Realist Painter

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    Edward Hopper Edward Hopper once said, “If you could say it in words there’d be no reason to paint”(Foa 21). Edward Hopper is considered a world famous, considered a realist painter. Edward Hopper is known all throughout the world for being an exceptional painter. Hopper He is a very famous painter from the United States oOf America, and . He is also known for his oil paintings. Edward Hopper was born on July 22, 1882, in Nyack New York (Foa 6). He had a sister, Marion Hopper who was two years

  • The Nighthawks By Edward Hopper: An Analysis

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    society; If somebody is not friends with everybody or almost everybody they become either isolated or anti-social to society. Many times people tend to see people as lonely, isolated, or anti-social when they just keep to a small group of people. Edward Hopper’s painting the Nighthawks represents the feeling that someone does not need large quantities of people to make them feel important. Even when the world tries to isolate someone, a few people can make that person’s day. Individuals spend too

  • Autoat By Author's Name: Automat By Edward Hopper

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    Running head: AUTOMAT BY EDWARD HOPPER 1 Automat by Edward Hopper Author’s Name Institution Affiliation Automat by Edward Hopper Edward hopper is a renowned American artist popularly known for his oil paintings that focused mainly on his own reflections of the modern American life. He is famously known as the ‘silent painter’ due to his incessant tendencies to frame his works in such a manner

  • Racism In The Movie Trumbo

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    way. This was done so people would despise communism and despise people who support the idea of communism. An example of propaganda from the film was in the beginning when Trumbo and his family went to a newsreel. At the newsreel, the work of Hedda Hopper, a columnist, depicted communists like Trumbo and his associates, to have a destructive nature and have a common goal; ‘world domination’. It told everyday citizens that communists are horrible people and/that want to dominate the world and start

  • Grace Hopper's Accomplishments

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    are so many military leaders in the World. One leader that sticks out is Grace Hopper. In 1928, she graduated from Vassar College with a BA in mathematics and physics and joined the Vassar faculty. While an instructor at Vassar, she continued her studies in mathematics at Yale University, where she earned an MA in 1930 and a PhD in 1934. She joined the U.S Naval Reserves in 1943 to assist the need of our country. Hopper retired from the reserves and went active duty seven months later where she became

  • Grace Hopper: A Pioneer In The US Navy

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    Grace Hopper was a pioneer in the field of computer science and for over 40 years was at the front lines of computing development --in the U.S. Navy, the world of college and in industry. Despite the many amazing technology changes that have happened since her death, she remains liked and respected worldwide and ever popular with CHIPS readers.Grace Brewster Murray was born Dec. 9, 1906, in New York, New York. She entered Vassar College at 17, graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 1928 with a BA in mathematics

  • What Is Easy Rider Examples Of American Culture

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    The life of drugs and crime is an easy life to slip into. In Easy Rider, was a perfect depiction of America in the late 1960s. The film came from the book, On the Road by Jack Kerouac. The book covered included anything from causal sex to all kinds of drugs, while also questioning the American system of pop culture. Throughout the movie, Easy Rider, there were countless examples of the true portrayal of American culture through themes of racism, hippie culture, drugs, and casual sex. This movie

  • Theme Of Imperialism In Heart Of Darkness

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    The first chapter of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness depicts the journey that Charles Marlow, the protagonist of the story, makes into the heart of Africa in order to become a captain of a steamboat. The novel begins with an introduction of various characters, including Marlow by an unnamed narrator. Marlow and the unnamed narrator are aboard the Nellie and the boat has been temporarily docked in order to wait for a change in tide. During that short break Marlow begins to talk about one of his