project hopper 4ème creative writing
We would like pupils to write an imaginative piece inspired by one of Hopper's.
It's a creative writing assignment, not a request for a description or a report on the artist.
The idea is to imagine what is happening in the image (or what happened before or after) for example.
If there are a people in the image, what are they thinking?
Or pupils can put themselves in the place of someone (the artist or someone else) observing the scene.
Edward Hopper was a keen observer of the everyday, which he transformed through his imagination into works of art that bear his signature tense, enigmatic atmospheres. A reflective and individualistic man, he was deeply attuned to the relationship of the self to the world, and his works increasingly focused on the psychological realities of his subjects. Hopper was frequently inspired by the two locations in which he spent most of his time: downtown New York, where he lived and worked in the same apartment on Washington Square from 1913 until his death in 1967; and Cape Cod, where, beginning in 1934, he maintained a second home and studio.
Edward Hopper, Manhattan Bridge , 1925–26. Watercolor and graphite pencil on paper, 13 15/16 × 19 15/16 in. (35.4 × 50.6 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Josephine N. Hopper Bequest 70.1098. © Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper/Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
