Painter- Edward Hopper

Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 – May 15, 1967) was an American painter most excellent remembered for his eerily sensible depictions of solitude in contemporary American life.
Born in Nyack, New York, Hopper studied money-making art and painting in New York City. One of his teachers, artist Robert Henri, motivated his students to use their art to “make a stir in the world.” Henri, an also influence on Hopper, motivated students to make realistic depictions of urban life. Henri’s students, a lot of whom developed into important artists, become known as the Ashcan School of American art.
Upon carrying out his formal education, Hopper made three trips to Europe to study the up-and-coming art scene there, but unlike many of his generation who imitated the theoretical cubist experiments, the romanticism of the realist painters enamored Hopper. His early schemes reflect the realist influence.
While he worked for more than a few years as a commercial artist, Hopper continued painting. In 1925 he shaped House by the Railroad, a classic work that marks his artistic maturity. The piece is the first of a sequence of stark urban and rural scenes that uses sharp lines and large shapes, played upon by strange lighting to capture the feeling alone mood of his subjects. He derived his subject matter from the ordinary features of American life — gas stations, motels, the railroad, or an empty street.
The best known of these paintings, Nighthawks (1942), shows the forlorn customers frequenting a downtown all-night diner. The diner’s cruel electric lights set it off from the gentle night outside. The diners, seated at stools around the counter, are similarly isolated from one another, dazzling on themselves.


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