Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Painting , Analysis, Sentence

Project 2



Chosen Painting: Edward Hopper- 'Hotel Room'
- Figure is hunched, facing away from the brightness, hiding.

Emotive and phenomenal qualities:
- confinement, isolation, cramped, exhaustion, worry.

Analysis of the density and depth of the painting.

Analysis of the geometry of the painting:
- Crisp vertical lines.
- Eye is drawn to the figure, then to the large white space behind her, followed by the dark. cluttered corner.

Narrative to inspire my sequence of rooms:
A maze-like container for a woman who plays hide and seek with the world.

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