How Edward Hopper "Storyboarded" His Iconic Painting Nighthawks. Edward Hopper's Nighthawks (1942) doesn't just evoke a certain stripe of mid-century, after-hours, big-city American loneliness; it has more or less come to stand for the feeling itself. But as with most images that passed so fully into the realm of iconhood, we all too easily forget that the painting didn't simply emerge complete, ready to embed itself in the zeitgeist.
Robin Cembalest at ARTnews has a post on how Edward Hopper "storyboarded" Nighthawks, finding and sketching out models for those three melancholic customers (one of whom you can see in an early rendering above), that wholesome young attendant in white, and the all-night diner (which you can see come together in chalk on paper below) in which they find refuge. Despite how many elements of the real world Hopper studied to create Nighthawks, it ultimately depicts no real place. The painter himself posed for the male figures, and his wife modeled for the female. Via ARTNews Related Content: William S. Carla Klein - Artists - Tanya Bonakdar Gallery. Mirrors on Easels Create the Illusion of Desert Landscape Paintings in California’s Joshua Tree National Park. Photographer Daniel Kukla who has a background in both biology and anthropology has a new series of work called The Edge Effect where he photographed square mirrors propped on easels in locations around Joshua Tree National Park to catch the reflection of the horizon behind him.
The resulting images create the bizarre effect of looking at a paintings sitting in the middle of the desert. Of the work Kukla says: In March of 2012, I was awarded an artist’s residency by the United States National Park Service in southern California’s Joshua Tree National Park. While staying in the Park, I spent much of my time visiting the borderlands of the park and the areas where the low Sonoran desert meets the high Mojave desert. While hiking and driving, I caught glimpses of the border space created by the meeting of distinct ecosystems in juxtaposition, referred to as the Edge Effect in the ecological sciences. Gerhard Richter.
Thomas Campbell. A 3D Tour of Picasso’s Guernica. Banksy Releases Exclusive Print That’s Free For All To Download. In celebration of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, UK street artist Banksy has released an exclusive print absolutely free for all. The free art piece, entitled ‘Er…’—available from Pictures on Walls—is meant to be easily downloaded, printed and applied to wherever users see fit. “An exclusive download for the more ambivalent patriot. Simply save off the file and take to your nearest branch of prestoprint where it can be transferred onto a mug, tea towel or other quality item. Alternatively print onto a piece of paper, sellotape to a barbecue skewer and wave in an ‘ironic’ way as the Queen drives past,” the description of the art piece said.
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