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A2-B1-B2 Edward Hopper
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tgzFalhMEI[/youtube]
“If I could say
it in words,
I wouldn’t need
to paint”
video clips: copy and paste!
http://americanart.si.edu/education/resources/guides/index.cfm
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTGd2xDhuDI[/youtube]
NGA New York curator speaks about Edward Hopper’s paintings
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cNhbrb8P6k&feature=related[/youtube]
Boys and girls meet:
a gorgeous adult Persian cat and a lovely German sheepherd
puppy – they’re going to get on like a house on fire.
http://www.everydaycitizen.com/2008/02/norman_rockwell_and_the_civil.html
several Rockwell’s illustrations:
http://www.nrm.org/pdfs/family-guide.pdf
It is true or false ?
The atmosphere:
calm and quiet
disturbing and disquieting
peaceful and relaxing
noisy with a lot of people walking and doing their shopping
It gives an impression of quietness and accomplishment
It conveys a strange feeling that something unpleasant is going to happen
It conveys the feeling that something pleasant will take place
Which adjectives ?
sad- romantic- gothic- realisitc- modern- everyday America or Grand America
Which words?
romanticism- realism-modernism- gothicism
What are the artist’s favourite scenes?
Choose two answers:
– busy streets or empty streets
-daylight in the early morning or at night
–urban scenes – everyday America or Grand America
-people interact with each other (talk and chat)
people are indifferent and do not care about each other
-people look at various directions
–colourful or sad scenes
-people on their own (seuls) or people with friends
–towns, cities or seascapes and landscapes
-loneliness and isolation
-lonely and isolated
On the one hand,
On the other hand,
It is up to the viewer to decide !
The viewer is considered as a free person to judge and make his own picture of the scene
The artist is very respectful of the viewers as he does NOT impose his own viewpoint
The viewers are free to invent their own world
they can choose between positive and negative feelings,
between loneliness and isolation
Bright Star by John Keats
Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art—
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like nature’s patient, sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth’s human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors–
No–yet still stedfast, still unchangeable,
Pillow’d upon my fair love’s ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever–or else swoon to death.
