Edward Hopper

Urban Landscape of Edward Hopper Who Painted the Life in the Era of Mobility

About the Lecture

  • The concepts of mobility, maneuverability, and fluidity in mobility.
  • The possibility of expanding and integrating the field of mobility humanities with images by combining sociology and art works.
  • A lecture that confirms the changes in modern people’s lives from the primary mobility systems of walking to the mobility of trains with the development of technology through industrialization and the commercialization of automobiles in the gasoline era.

Urban Landscape of Edward Hopper Who Painted the Life in the Era of Mobility

  • Analyse the artwork of Edward Hopper (1882-1967), an American realism artist in the 20th century with keywords.
  • Examine the urban landscape paintings that show side effects of urbanisation and industrialisation caused by immigration and migration and explain the characteristics of urban landscape paintings drawn by Edward Hopper.
  • Examine the paintings of Edward Hopper, who depicted the lonely feelings inside the modern people at that time in line with the image of ‘Lonely Crowd’ by David Riesman.