The 1000++ Artworks created around 1950 and ...

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Introduction

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Edward Hopper's Nighthawks is one of the most recognizable paintings in American art, and it has been described as his best-known work. The painting portrays four people in a downtown diner late at night as viewed through the diner's large glass window. The light coming from the diner illuminates...

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The Artist: Andrew Wyeth

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Rooms for Tourists, like most of Hopper's scenic paintings, displays the importance of light as a dramatic element. The mood in pictures depends on the special character of light at different times of day, the light also creating a common basis for architectural forms and natural phenomena. Architec...

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Edward Hopper was an American Scene painter, a painter who captured ordinary life in the United States throughout the 1930s, 1940s, and beyond. Edward Hoppers artwork Morning Sun from 1952 depicts his wife Jo, who served as the model for several of his female works. Figures in Hopper's paintings are...

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George Grosz: The Artist

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Collins St., 5 pm is a 1955 painting by Australian artist John Brack. The painting depicts office workers walking along busy Collins Street in Melbourne after finishing work for the day. It is considered a companion piece to Brack's earlier work, The bar. The painting is part of the National Gallery...

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Magritte got the name for this painting from his poet friend Louis Scutenaire, who often helped him find names for his paintings. In this case, the name Golconda refers to a city in India, which was the seat for two different kingdoms from the 14th to 17th centuries. The richness of the region, as i...

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