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- Synthesis Hopper.
- During all this year, we studied the notion of power.
- In politics and social science, power is the ability to influence the behavior of people.
- In order to live together member of a community accept rules, regulations, laws.
- This helps create social cohesion but can also lead to conflicts and tencion.
- But we studied a theme which is seldom a source of conflict, our theme is the power of art.
- In fact, art has been, during a long time the best way to express, to denounce or criticise.
- We notably studied the power of art with Edward Hopper, who has been a famous American painter and printmaker.
- He was born in 1882 and died in 1967, and during his 85 years of life; he painted many of works, which are today known as part of the discourse of anti-urbanism.
- We notably studied 18 works and focus on 2 paintings, Approaching a city (1946) and Nightawks (1942) So, what extent those works contributed to the discourse of anti-urbanism ?
- In the first place we are going to talk about anti-urbanism then we going to see, how Hopper's works contributed to this discourse ?
- 1) Definition of anti-urbanism and famous people who contributed in.
- a) A discourse of fear of the city.
- - The discourse of the attract for the nature.
- -Give a negative representation of urban place.
- → New-York = place for his most famous works.
- b) An eclectic influence.
- - Film noir genre ( to his point of view; to the paintings darkness, strangeness).
- -Valasquez (rural landscape).
- - Picasso (one of the most known).
- -Henri David Thoreau ( doc perso ) : main idea's which is Walden : isolation, nature quitness.
- → transcendentalism ; the apology of the nature doesn't be a litterary theme.
- 2) How Hopper's paintings contributed to anti-urbanism ?
- a) Urban landscapes.
- -Isolation : *never communication, look parallelism ( Nighthawks ).
- *anonymity (hotel room).
- -Negative vision : insipid and dark colors ; strainght lines ; geometrical forms and dirty street (Approaching a city).
- -All of these elements creats several feelings like oppression, emprisonment, isolation, stress by a strict and rigorous technic.
- b) Rural landscapes.
- -to make the contrast.
- -create the feeling of peace with pastel colors.
- -There is more life (as in Cap cop evening with the dog which plays).
- -Countryside seems to be quiet.
- -People want to go to the countryside to escape the city's dangers.
- To conclude we can say that because of the contrast between urban and rural scenes, we can see this discourse of anti-urbanism.
- And we can say that the power of art may be a ery good way to denounce urban life.
- Marie1902January 2016Сада гласајте !
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