Nt1310 Unit 9 Final Project

The last but not the least, Hopper incorporates formal elements like value, space and lines to display the double act of looking in Morning Sun. “ The model for the painting was Hopper’s wife Josephine. She was to be become Hopper’s only female model after their marriage in the mid-20s. At the time those drawings were made, she was 69 years old” (Theophanidis, 2014). As capturing the main character in the painting, a young girl with hair in a bun sits at the middle of the bed in a bare room. Both of her hands hold her knees, and the back leans forward. She is dressed up like a ballet dancer, looking outside of the window dully and staring at one point in the distance. Since the curtain is not pulled on the top, so a slice of sunlight is casted

Not too much outfit on girl’s body, but a pair of pink dress. Factories on the street lined up and extended to the distance.

The reason Hopper kept using the double act of looking was that flaws in the society during the postwar period could still be found. A young female is supposed to be full of vitality; however, this young female stays on the bed and appears lethargic. It attracts spectators’ attentions to think about what things the young female is facing as they replace themselves into the painting. The main target of this painting is female. Based on what Cayton, et al., the spectators recognize that Hopper was trying to tell us, “The workplace remained highly stratified along gender lines. Not until the political and cultural climate shifted in the early 1960s would women begin actively to resist the gender stereotyping so characteristic of 1950s social attitudes” (Cayton et al., 1993). Females sustained the pressure of taking restricted social role; otherwise, they will be discriminated by the public. The girl in the painting wears a dress like a ballet dancer, which does not seem like the common job females will take at that period, compared to nurse, schoolteacher,