Week5 -Project 2 : Room and Narrative

Chosen Painting: Edward Hopper- “Morning Sun” ( 1952)
The middle-aged woman is sitting alone on her bed and staring at the window. This gives a sense of isolation and solitary. However, with the bright light coming from the window and shining on the woman’s face, the sense of optimistic can be shown from the ambience of the painting.
My interpretation of the woman’s facial expression is that she is questioning about her role in life and she is quite confusing with her future. Moreover, we can feel some sense of optimism, as the woman seemed to have a will of going out the building and figuring out her future and personal goal.
“In Morning Sun, he depicts a lone, middle-aged woman sitting on a bed in a curiously barren room and staring at nothing in particular. By presenting situations that appear unresolved and instilling in them a pervasive sense of solitude, the artist transforms the mundane and familiar into the extraordinary and enigmatic. One of the artist’s colleagues described Hopper’s art as “silent poetry”.”

Description of the figure:
-sits in profile, in a pink slip, on a bed, staring out a window as light hits her pinched cheeks and raw-red hands.
-an ordinary room with a large opening on the wall
-light falls on the wall with an elongated shape
-small room with the sense of trapping and oppression

Narrative: A maze for a solitary middle-aged woman who is optimistically willing to figure out her role of life.