Among his monotype and pastel works, Degas did a series featuring a young model bathing in private interior scenes, many with the light coming in from a window. The model appears to be caught midway into a movement, making triangles with her body. While the bathing models make a variety of shapes in various positions, many of these interior scenes have secondary verticals and rumpled fabrics that support the model in the composition, and give the scene an intimate feeling, emphasizing the interior elements.
Edward Hopper, Evening Wind, etching (1921)
Hopper’s Prints
Hopper, Night in the Park, etching (1921)
Hopper, The Railroad, (1922)
Hopper produced approximately 70 prints over a relatively short period of time. His career as an etcher was short, and ended in 1923. In 1928 he made two last drypoints, before abandoning printmaking to focus on painting.
Martin Lewis, etching
If all Hopper wanted to do was paint light on the side of a house (Hopper’s quote), all Martin Lewis wanted to do was capture moments where light and shadow play.
Martin Lewis, Relics, drypoint, 1928
Notice how Lewis uses diagonals and strong light vs dark shadow shapes to create structure and mood in his compositions. The figures initiate the movement, but in parallel to Hopper’s quiet stage actors, they’re no more individual and personal than the buildings themselves. The story lives in the moment of the scene.
People posted hundreds of drawings for our 30 day January challenge, in which artists are invited to respond to a daily prompt posted on our V. Notes blog. Unlike other drawing challenges, these prompts are wildly varied, open to non-typical materials around us, and are designed to feed a broad spectrum of creative skills at …
[image_with_animation image_url=”7137″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Occasionally I can’t find my own darned painting on my own darned computer, so I’ll ask Google if it’s online somewhere. Today I was working on portrait palettes, and was looking for some of the quick portrait studies I’ve done. I remembered one and couldn’t find it on my …
Today’s WORD Challenge: Coptic. Media is artist’s choice. Coptic art includes any of the murals, textiles, illuminated manuscripts, relief sculpture, and metalwork associated with the Greek and Egyptian speaking Christian peoples of Egypt from about the 3rd to the 12th century AD. Coptic icons depict beautiful religious narratives, and do not reach to portray realism, depth, naturalistic …
In 1918, at the age of 28, Austrian artist Egon Schiele began painting a portrait of his new family. That autumn, Egon, his wife Edith, and their unborn baby died. They were among millions of people who succumbed to the Spanish flu that year. Before his death, Schiele mourned his mentor and friend, the artist …
Hopper’s Influences in Printmaking
“Au Louvre, la peinture, Mary Cassatt” by Degas
Among his monotype and pastel works, Degas did a series featuring a young model bathing in private interior scenes, many with the light coming in from a window. The model appears to be caught midway into a movement, making triangles with her body. While the bathing models make a variety of shapes in various positions, many of these interior scenes have secondary verticals and rumpled fabrics that support the model in the composition, and give the scene an intimate feeling, emphasizing the interior elements.
Edward Hopper, Evening Wind, etching (1921)
Hopper’s Prints
Hopper, Night in the Park, etching (1921)
Hopper, The Railroad, (1922)
Hopper produced approximately 70 prints over a relatively short period of time. His career as an etcher was short, and ended in 1923. In 1928 he made two last drypoints, before abandoning printmaking to focus on painting.
Martin Lewis, etching
If all Hopper wanted to do was paint light on the side of a house (Hopper’s quote), all Martin Lewis wanted to do was capture moments where light and shadow play.
Martin Lewis, Relics, drypoint, 1928
Notice how Lewis uses diagonals and strong light vs dark shadow shapes to create structure and mood in his compositions. The figures initiate the movement, but in parallel to Hopper’s quiet stage actors, they’re no more individual and personal than the buildings themselves. The story lives in the moment of the scene.
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