American Art History

Nota:

• - Struggles of the working class - Injustice

1. Edward Hopper

   Nota:

   • - Exhibited at the Armory Show of 1913, then worked as a commercial illustrator and advertising artist. Then went back to painting - "I am interested primarily in the vast field of experience and sensation" - So much of every art is an expression of the subconscious, that it seems to me most of all the important qualities are put there unconsciously"
   1. Automat (1927)

      Nota:

      • - Detachment - Bleak silence - Outlines not harsh/geometrical - Dominance of dark empty space - Lights receding indefinitely into void - Hat on: no need for niceties
   2. Chop Suey (1929)

      Nota:

      • - Leading lines in triangular composition - Hats: not staying very long - Disinterest in one another, also seen in man staring at cigarette - Doll-like, lifeless - Light from outside suggests vibrance - Shadows in restaurant suggest true nature of the city - FIgures trapped in the shadows, isolated from the city
   3. Night Windows (1928)

      Nota:

      • - Voyeurism - Vulnerability
   4. Early Sunday Morning (1930)
   5. Compartment C, Car (1938)
   6. Nighthawks (1942)

      Nota:

      • - "Nighthawks seems to be the way I think of a night street. I didn't see it as particularly lonely. Unconsciously, probably, I was painting the loneliness of a large city"
   7. Sun in an Empty Room (1963)
2. Grant Wood
   1. American Gothic (1930)
3. Dorothea Lange
   1. Migrant Mother, Nipomo Valley (1935)
4. Hotel Room (1931)