Can anyone suggest some paintings or photographs that may suggest solitude? I need to write on it and get a specific feeling of lonliness or solitude from it. Thanks for any and all help!
2007-04-25 10:19:56 · 10 answers · asked by will 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Painting
Anything by Edward Hopper. His painting are extremely lonely. Sometimes there will be no one in the image, sometimes several, but even when this is the case none of the characters in a painting will look at each other, there is no communication, everyone is lonely. Its meant to really make you feel the isolation of the big city, the loneliness that accompanied urbanisation and massive rural to urban relocation in the mid 20th century. Characters are often enclosed by clostrophobic architecture. The tehme of the window is often interesting in Hopper's paintings as well, and the lightling is always amazing. Here are a few good ones:
nighthawks http://www.ecs.umass.edu/ece/labs/ssl/todd/hopper.nighthawks.jpg
Night Windows
http://www.moma.org/images/collection/FullSizes/00133056.jpg
Cape cod morning
https://www.statsbiblioteket.dk/editors/emneed/fs/x-files/kunsthistorie/gfx/Hopper_Edward_Cape_Cod_Morning_big.jpg
Morning Sun
http://atuleirus.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/Edward%20Hopper%20-%20morning_sun.jpg
Automat
http://members.aol.com/ondinemonet/images/automat%20edward%20hopper.jpg
House by the Railroad
http://mylifestream.net/scrapbook/uploaded_images/Hopper-House-by-the-Railroad-710288.jpg
Pensylvania http://www.butlerart.com/pc_book/images/Edward_Hopper_Pennsylvania.jpg
Room in New York
http://www.2blowhards.com/archives/Hopper%20-%20Room%20in%20New%20York%20-%201932.jpg
Room by the sea
http://www.artinthepicture.com/artists/Edward_Hopper/sea.jpeg
The Movie Theatre
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/MCG/FH575~New-York-Movie-Posters.jpg
Hotel Lobby
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/h/hopper/hopper_hotel_lobby.jpg
Gas Pumps
http://photos7.flickr.com/10436349_4d2cb45fc2.jpg
Morning
http://www.wcma.org/press/06/BigImages/06Hopper/Hopper_morning.jpg
Street
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/hopper/street/hopper.sunday.jpg
Chair Car
http://www.solsup.com.au/greenman/hopper.jpg
Summertime
http://www.math.univ-montp2.fr/~herzlich/divers/images/hopper16.jpg
Good Luck!
2007-04-25 22:52:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try checking out a famous painting by Andrew Wyeth called "Christina's World". It shows a crippled girl on a farm (in obviously countrified, slightly dated and unfashionable clothes that speak of a poorer upbringing).
She is sitting with her back towards the viewer, her withered legs off to the side, leaning on her arms, palms flat on the ground. She is under a clear sky in a grainfield looking at the horizon. There is a solitary barn on the horizon and the overall feeling is that she has just this limited world, alone, but that it is enough. Who brought her out? Does she enjoy this time in the fresh air? Is she thinking of travel and soaring or is she just absorbing a quiet moment of solitude? Does she feel lost and insignifcant or inspired?
The quiet of the colors, the stark very realistic light and rendering that makes her condition clear, and the tense, almost terse quiet and space all speak volumes about her and her life.
2007-04-25 22:49:42 · answer #2 · answered by Roy H 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christina's World by Andrew Wyeth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina's_World
Winter Landscape by Caspar David Friedrich
http://www.roland-collection.com/rolandcollection/section/10/347.htm
2007-04-25 17:31:46 · answer #3 · answered by Peter P 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Friedrich, Caspar David (1774-1840)
'Monk by the Sea'
1809
Oil on canvas, 110 x 172 cm
Nationalgalerie, Berlin
'When she saw it in 1809, Marie described it to her friend Friederike Volkmann:
"A vast endless expanse of sky ... still, no wind, no moon, no storm - indeed a storm would have been some consolation for then one would at least see life and movement somewhere. On the unending sea there is no boat, no ship, not even a sea monster, and in the sand not even a blade of grass, only a few gulls float in the air and make the loneliness even more desolate and horrible." '
2007-04-26 04:35:41 · answer #4 · answered by Moll C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
painting is a work of arts. It takes a considerable amount of skill to accurately defict the various details a like and thoughts carefully, captured by tips pf paintings brush. Paintings would depends largely on the message of the artist. Paintings with lots of energy, color and movement, techniques and meaning in painting provides a techniques. The style varied in the paintings depending upon the painter and his thought process.... Paintings reflect observations of the colorful lives of the people around the world......
2007-04-26 02:35:38 · answer #5 · answered by lita v 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Find an image of the Van Gogh painting called "Prisoners' Round." It depicts a circle of prisoners being walked in a circle (for exercise) in a dead-end alley. The central prisoner is looking straight at the viewer of the painting, and it's Vincent himself. It's quite disturbing.
2007-04-25 17:30:04 · answer #6 · answered by Skepticat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
John William Waterhouse's Miranda and the Tempest
2007-04-25 18:56:04 · answer #7 · answered by Christine C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to hellosanantonio.com and look under artist name ''Guerro''. There are two paintings there that you may find reflect those feelings you are looking for, but remember to e-email the artist through the site if you will be using his art for your paper.
2007-04-26 11:28:14 · answer #8 · answered by GUERRO 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Giorgio de Chirico
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Melancholy%26MysteryofaStreet.jpg
2007-04-25 20:22:53 · answer #9 · answered by other_user 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.irtc.org/ftp/pub/stills/2002-08-31/solitude.jpg
I really like this one
2007-04-25 17:28:03 · answer #10 · answered by Puppy Zwolle 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋