Hopper never painted narratives; it's up to us to impose our own stories on his images. But, says Ottinger, there are autobiographical elements in the paintings. In Hopper's 1932 painting Room in New York, a man and a woman sit together but alone. The man is engrossed in his newspaper; the woman seems lost in thought,…
CRIPT – EARLY SUNDAY MORNING FADE UP EMPTY STREET AMBIENCE… LOW HUM OF DISTANT TRAFFIC The year is 1930. The artist Edward Hopper is up very early on a Sunday morning, walking the streets of his neighborhood in Greenwich Village, New York City. A FEW BIRDS…A MAN’S FOOTSTEPS ON CONCRETE….SLOW, STEADY He walks alone…at this…
Hopper's painting represents a borderline situation. It is set at the frontier between day and night, between civilization and nature. The gas station has the appearance of a last outpost, where the human realm gives way, across the road, to the anonymous realm of nature. the edge of the woods rises like a dark wall…
A facade of Monet's pink stucco house with its bright green shutters — a historically accurate replica by Tony Award-winning set designer Scott Park — marks the start of the exhibition. From there, visitors are led down the Grand Allee, a shorter recreation of Monet's rose-covered trellis pathway lined on both sides with thick beds…
Claude Monet was one of a group of painters who created the style of art called 'Impressionism'. The name 'Impressionism' was a sarcastic tag attached to one of his paintings, 'Impression: Sunrise' (1873) in a review by Louis Leroy in the satirical magazine 'Le Charivari' (25th April 1874).Impressionist painters tried to capture the quality of light and atmosphere…
Bouquet of Sunflowers or sometimes simply Sunflowers is a painting by Claude Monet executed in 1881. The medium of the painting is oil on canvas. The dimensions of the painting are 39 3/4 x 32 inches, i.e. 101 × 81 cm. The painting was part of the private collection of H.O. Havemeyer who acquired it…
Claude Monet was in many ways fascinated by Japanese culture. Many woodcuts and decorations at his house in Giverny attest to this, not least the bridge he had built in his garden. Monet included the bridge in many paintings that not only focused on the bridge itself but also on the pond it spanned, the water…
Monet found a large house to rent on the southern outskirts of the village. He signed a long-term lease and transported the family's belongings by river to Giverny in his studio boat. By June, Monet and his family were settled in their new home. Late in the year, he resumed his travels, but it was…
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Edua was the creative force in Fabian’s life and Antonio was the inspiration for his work. Fabian witnessed his father’s unorthodox and often difficult life, portraying him in his paintings as “the cool guy” outside nightclubs and bordellos. Antonio owned a number of brothels and illegal nightclubs in Campana, and was frequently chased and closed…