Analysis Of Edward Hopper Emotional Representation In Urban Painting

Edward hopper is the greatest realist painter of the 20 th century in the united states.He uses houses and streets as the theme to express his emotions.his works have a prof ound resonance with the american people.he is also known as a "house painter".This ar ticle takes the painter and his architectural city painting as the starting point to study the painter's emotions,Combined with the social background,Human environment a nd the composition of the work at that time to interpret.Today's Cities are develo ping rapidly.People's lives are more convenient and they have to face more press ure.Urban paintings will not be outdated,but also more conducive to expressing the em otions of today's urban people.Provide a good creative idea for the author to stud y new painting directions.Hopper's paintings have always been devoted to focusing on the most comm on common experiences in modern life,rather than indulging in individual small emotio ns,So his works will be liked and affirmed by millions of americans.he paints a realisti c society it resonated with everyone.Although he was in an era of modern art outbreak,He did not choose to follow the wave,but insisted on using the most simple style of pai nting to describe the inner state of mind of modern people."Writing" the real world,no matter from the early sketching or mature production in the later period,He is as focuse d and calm as ever.Hopper is silent and introverted,and has his own unique understanding of painting.in the process of studying painting,He has been influenced from various aspects.arran ged in the picture in a unique form,It forms a lonely and indifferent atmosphere.It can be said that he has inherited the traditional painting techniques well and injected new pa inting forms into it.He insisted on himself in the art trend of the time and was unique.H e created a surrealistic expression in realism,and the extraction and refinement of famili ar symbols in painting life gave a deeper meaning.This article focuses on the subject of urban painting in hopper's paintings.T he "city" here is not a high-rise building in a narrow sense.It is a series of works created from the perspective of hopper as a city dweller.His paintings are rich in subject matter but only express one theme in his life,which is about the loneliness of life and the indif ference of people.We can “snoop” from his different works to the scenes of new yorker s living in the united states from the late 19 th to the middle of the 20 th century,and at th e same time judge the emotional expression of the work by analyzing the symbolic sym bols implicit in hopper's paintings.We need to find the laws of painting from hop per's works,not only those simple forms of painting,but more importantly,To lea rn his attention to the spirit of the times and the inner spiritual world of mankind.