Visit to Virtual Museum
April 3rd, 2016
In this painting, there are some strong verticals and horizontals that work together to give the audience a clear view and allow them to concentrate all of the details of the painting. This means that the viewer of the painting will be able to look at the center of the painting where the woman is sitting on the bed. Edward Hopper is trying to portray that inside of a modern city a person is going to be lonely. In the background of the painting, the audience can see that it is confined by a wall and chest drawers on the right.
The long diagonal lines of the bed provides the audience with the ability to see all of the background and then the open window in the painting lets them to peep in to see what exactly might be going on in the room. Once the audience has carefully examined the painting, it is clear what all of the architectural elements are and how they fit so well with the lust of paint. Edward portrayed the elements in his painting was three-dimensional like the corner of the wall at the background where applied a relaxing color (Levin, 1980).
Art in Nazi, Germany
After reading the article, “Degenerate Art” and watching the video, “Art in Nazi Germany”, I believe that it was very evident that there are a lot of art influence in changing the way the people behaved and thought during that time. Most ideas were generated by the artists in their works to have some influence in the governments that were threatening repression. The impact on the art in society continued to felt even in the United States. There were creative cartoons in the local newspapers that often criticized the political wrangles showed just how much art was impacted society.
Even in the information age currently where everything can be obtained through the Internet, the works of art are still continuing to influence the society around it. But the art can also affect the way that some people think about things. The works of an artist was special because they have a touch of originality and are meant to convey a certain message to the audience. Based on this fact, the aesthetic value of the art is not lost because of all of the information that is displayed in the art (Barron, 1991).
Piece of art
The painting also substitutes the different resources that can be utilized by people, which is another characteristic of the Regionalism movement. This type of painting stands out in all of the classes of society from the upper class to the lower class members. This piece of art was the subject of potraying how the ordinary people of that time worked. It combined this with their daily lives even the people who were in the position of power did some of the most common things like the lower class people (Storm, 2003).
References:
Barron, S. (1991). Degenerate art: the fate of the avant-garde in Nazi Germany. Harry N. Abrams.
Levin, G. (1980). Edward Hopper: The Art and the Artist. WW Norton & Company Incorporated.
Storm, E. (2003). Regionalism in History, 1890-1945: the cultural approach. European History Quarterly, 33(2), 251-265.
