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Rooms By The Sea
''Rooms by the Sea'' is a 1951 painting by American realist Edward Hopper. It is a late period painting completed in the fall at his Cape Cod summer home and studio in South Truro, Massachusetts. The work depicts an empty room with a door opening to the sea, letting sunlight into that room and another room behind it. It is the first of two paintings with the shared theme of an empty room without people but filled with light, followed by ''Sun in an Empty Room'' (1963). Although Hopper adamantly rejected the characterization, art critics have noted elements of abstract art and surrealism in the work. Background Edward Hopper (1882–1967) first became interested in painting sunlight after seeing the work of the Impressionists during his trips to Europe from 1906 to 1907. An early example of Hopper's focus on sunlight is ''Trees in Sunlight, Parc de Saint-Cloud'' (1907). Beginning in the 1930s and continuing for the rest of his life, Hopper's approach to art solidified and remai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Realism
American realism was a movement in art, music and literature that depicted contemporary social realities and the lives and everyday activities of ordinary people. The movement began in literature in the mid-19th century, and became an important tendency in visual art in the early 20th century. Whether a cultural portrayal or a scenic view of downtown New York City, American realist works attempted to define what was real. In the U.S. at the beginning of the 20th century a new generation of painters, writers and journalists were coming of age. Many of the painters felt the influence of older U.S. artists such as Thomas Eakins, Mary Cassatt, John Singer Sargent, James McNeill Whistler, Winslow Homer, Childe Hassam, J. Alden Weir, Thomas Pollock Anshutz, and William Merritt Chase. However they were interested in creating new and more urbane works that reflected city life and a population that was more urban than rural in the U.S. as it entered the new century. America in the earl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Santa Fe ( ; , literal translation, lit. "Holy Faith") is the capital city, capital of the U.S. state of New Mexico, and the county seat of Santa Fe County. With over 89,000 residents, Santa Fe is the List of municipalities in New Mexico, fourth-most populous city in the state and the principal city of the Santa Fe metropolitan statistical area, which had 154,823 residents in 2020. Santa Fe is the third-largest city in the Albuquerque, New Mexico, Albuquerque–Santa Fe–Los Alamos, New Mexico, Los Alamos Albuquerque–Santa Fe–Los Alamos combined statistical area, combined statistical area, which had a population of 1,162,523 in 2020. Situated at the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, the city is at the highest altitude of any U.S. state capital, with an elevation of 6,998 feet (2,133 m). Founded in 1610 as the capital of ', a province of New Spain, Santa Fe is the oldest List of capitals in the United States, state capital in the United States and the earliest E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piet Mondrian
Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan (; 7 March 1872 – 1 February 1944), known after 1911 as Piet Mondrian (, , ), was a Dutch Painting, painter and Theory of art, art theoretician who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. He was one of the pioneers of 20th-century abstract art, as he changed his artistic direction from figurative painting to an increasingly abstract style, until he reached a point where his artistic vocabulary was reduced to simple geometric elements. Mondrian's art was highly utopian and was concerned with a search for universal values and aesthetics. He proclaimed in 1914: "Art is higher than reality and has no direct relation to reality. To approach the Spirituality, spiritual in art, one will make as little use as possible of reality, because reality is opposed to the spiritual. We find ourselves in the presence of an abstract art. Art should be above reality, otherwise it would have no value for man." He was a contributor to the ''De Stij ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Noon (Hopper)
''High Noon'' is a 1949 oil painting by the American Realist artist Edward Hopper, created in 1949. The work depicts a woman standing and staring outward from the doorway of a home, with the sun casting a split shadow over the home. Description At first glance, the features in the painting seem clear enough. A half-dressed woman stands at the front door, apparently waiting for someone or something. But the painting is complex, both psychologically and aesthetically. Hopper uses the image of a woman for an aesthetic exploration of light and shadow: the shadows on her body are an extension of the geometric shadows in the house. On the other hand, the light gives the impression of detachment: the white walls contrast sharply with the blue sky and the red chimney and foundation of the house, and in this light the woman is illuminated like if focused by a spotlight. The effect is almost obscene. Her dressing gown is not wrapped, which gives an almost complete picture of her nakedness, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Elovich
Richard Elovich (born 1954) is a social psychologist, writer, performance artist, and AIDS activist focusing on harm reduction and low-threshold approaches to drug treatment. Early life A student at New York University from 1973 to 1975, Elovich dropped out to pursue life as a writer and artist after meeting William S Burroughs through his job at the Manhattan bookstore and cultural center, the Gotham Book Mart. Elovich worked as a secretary to poet Allen Ginsberg, and lived in the former YMCA building at 222 Bowery where Burroughs and poet John Giorno lived, and where Mark Rothko had painted his Seagram murals, Seagrams murals in the former gymnasium. In 1976, Elovich joined Ginsberg, Burroughs and Tibetan Lama Chögyam Trungpa in residence at the Hotel Boulderado, assisting Ginsberg and Burroughs with teaching duties at the Jack Kerouac School, Jack Keroauc School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University, and driving Burroughs to Denver to see his son William S. Burroughs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
