He never really liked illustrating and longed for the freedom to paint from his imagination. In 1905, Hopper began working as an illustrator for a New York City advertising agency. Hopper's classmates at the school included George Bellows and Rockwell Kent. His teachers there included the American Impressionist William Merritt Chase (who founded the school) and Robert Henri, a leading figure of the Ashcan school, whose proponents advocated depicting the grittier side of urban life. Accordingly, he spent a year at the New York School of Illustration before transferring to the more serious New York School of Art (now Parsons School of Design) to realize his dream. Hopper's parents encouraged him to study commercial illustration instead of fine art. The boy was already serious about his artistic ambitions in the age of 10, when he started to sign and date his drawings. Hopper depicted the spirit of the time very subtly, showing it in the poses of characters, in the vast empty spaces around them, and also in his unique color palette.Įdward Hopper was born into a middle class family in Nyack, NY, a vibrant hub of transport and industry at the time. His suggestive imagery shares the mood of individual’s isolation with books of Tennessee Williams, Theodore Dreiser, Robert Frost, Jerome Salinger, as well as with canvasses of Giorgio De Chirico and Paul Delvaux. The ‘artist of empty spaces’ offers a remindful look at life of Americans during Great Depression. No other artist managed to capture the solitude within the modern city like Edward Hopper.
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