Assignment 2

Week One

Edward Hopper - Room in New York (1932)

“Room in New York” (1932) peers in at a couple in their living room through the open window of a city apartment. The pair are separated by space both physical and psychological, each preoccupied. Hopper conveys a palpable disquiet by the angle of the woman’s starkly lit shoulder as she turns away from her companion to plunk a solitary note on a piano.

Existential loneliness also exists within a relationship---a marriage, for instance.

Hopper's works are frozen moments from a narrative that stretches beyond the picture's boundaries.