Analysis of Art
Title: Cuteness and Loneliness
Life is full emotions like happiness and sadness. People sometimes feel happy, joyful, and cheerful, but sometimes sadness or depression. Edward Hopper and Takashi Nakamura draw their paintings to express different feelings. In Edward Hopper’s painting “Morning Sun” (1952), he displays the image of a woman looking outside alone in order to symbolize the woman’s feelings about “depression,” but also how she still has “hope” for her own life. On the other hand, in Takashi Nakamura’ painting “Kaikaikiki New” (2009), he displays the image of many cartoon-like characters in order to symbolize feelings of “happiness” Therefore, the two artists express opposing feelings in their works. In Edward Hopper’s painting, he mainly expresses the reality of daily life and the feeling of “depression” and “hope,” while Takashi Murakami draws the unreality to show the feeling of “Happiness” and “Cuteness.”
In Edward Hopper’s early career, he was trained as an illustrator for advertisement. However, he was a artist who was influenced by the realistic artist movement in the early twentieth century. He studied painting under Robert Henri, who was a member of a group of painters called the Ashcan School. Then his style of painting was changed, so “a feeling of loneliness and detachment pervaded Hopper’s works in the second half of his career” (Turner, 752). He started to paint the commonplaces of urban life with anonymous figures. However, most of his oil and watercolor paintings are neither crowded nor lively urban scenes. Rather, his art work captures the calm and solitary scene in urban areas. In his paintings, even though he paints urban scenes, dark places in a town or a single person in a plain bedroom dominate most of his paintings. This isolation of his subjects “was heightened by Hopper's characteristic use of light to insulate persons and objects in space” (“Synopsis”). Hopper then, paints a diffent kind of urban scene, which usually suggests a
Life is full emotions like happiness and sadness. People sometimes feel happy, joyful, and cheerful, but sometimes sadness or depression. Edward Hopper and Takashi Nakamura draw their paintings to express different feelings. In Edward Hopper’s painting “Morning Sun” (1952), he displays the image of a woman looking outside alone in order to symbolize the woman’s feelings about “depression,” but also how she still has “hope” for her own life. On the other hand, in Takashi Nakamura’ painting “Kaikaikiki New” (2009), he displays the image of many cartoon-like characters in order to symbolize feelings of “happiness” Therefore, the two artists express opposing feelings in their works. In Edward Hopper’s painting, he mainly expresses the reality of daily life and the feeling of “depression” and “hope,” while Takashi Murakami draws the unreality to show the feeling of “Happiness” and “Cuteness.”
In Edward Hopper’s early career, he was trained as an illustrator for advertisement. However, he was a artist who was influenced by the realistic artist movement in the early twentieth century. He studied painting under Robert Henri, who was a member of a group of painters called the Ashcan School. Then his style of painting was changed, so “a feeling of loneliness and detachment pervaded Hopper’s works in the second half of his career” (Turner, 752). He started to paint the commonplaces of urban life with anonymous figures. However, most of his oil and watercolor paintings are neither crowded nor lively urban scenes. Rather, his art work captures the calm and solitary scene in urban areas. In his paintings, even though he paints urban scenes, dark places in a town or a single person in a plain bedroom dominate most of his paintings. This isolation of his subjects “was heightened by Hopper's characteristic use of light to insulate persons and objects in space” (“Synopsis”). Hopper then, paints a diffent kind of urban scene, which usually suggests a
Cited: Turner Jane. “Hopper Edward.” The Dictionary of Art. London, England: Macmillan, 1996. Vol 34. Print. Holland Cotter. “Hopper’s America, in Shadow and Light” The New York Times. 4 May, 2007. Web. 20 Oct, 2011. <www.nytimes.com> “Synopsis” Edward Hopper biography Barrett Terry. “Collapsing Boundaries Between “High” and “Low” Art.” Making Art Form And Meaning. New York NY. 2011. Print.