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Hopper's and painting
Hopper's first existing oil painting to hint at his famous interiors was Solitary Figure in a Theater ( c. 1904 ).
Much meaning can be added to a painting by its title, but the titles of Hopper's paintings were sometimes chosen by others, or were selected by Hopper and his wife in a way that makes it unclear whether they have any real connection with the artist's meaning.
In 1993, Madonna was inspired sufficiently by Hopper's 1941 painting Girlie Show that she named her world tour after it and incorporated many of the theatrical elements and mood of the painting into the show.
Hopper's painting Early Sunday Morning was the inspiration for the sleeve of British band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark's 1985 album Crush.
Edward Hopper | Edward Hopper's iconic 1942 painting Nighthawks depicts a diner and its occupants, late at night.
Edward Hopper's iconic 1942 painting Nighthawks depicts a diner and its occupants, late at night.
Edward Hopper's painting Nighthawks was used as a background in one of the film's sequences.
* The setting and title for Edward Hopper's painting " Automat.
Some critics are quick to see the influence of Edward Hopper's Gas ( 1940 ) in Ruscha's 1963 oil painting, Standard Station, Amarillo, Texas.
As Jo Hopper's journal entry notes, the brightest spot in the painting is the “ bit of bright ceiling ” close to the hidden fluorescent light that illuminates the interior.
The similarity in lighting and themes makes this possible ; it is certainly very unlikely that Hopper would have failed to see the exhibition, and as Levin notes, the painting had twice been exhibited in the company of Hopper's own works.
" Joyce Carol Oates wrote interior monologues for the figures in the painting in her poem " Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, 1942 ".
The shot of the diner is a reference to Edward Hopper's Nighthawks painting.
To reach the switching yard, visitors had to walk the spiraling passageway through the miniature landscape that expanded the basement to enormous size — a landscape filled with railroad stations ; houses ; bridges ; factories ; a cliff-side gravel road that ran under a concrete arch supporting a steel railroad bridge in front of a hydroelectric dam with a generating plant beside it topped with twin round chimneys and, above and behind it on a plateau, a solitary white two-story wood frame house ; railroad crossings ; shacks ; coal companies ; a three-story brick ' Central Light And Power Company ' with a brick smoke stack that dwarfed it, cars loaded with coal from the ' Ynysybwl Coal Company ' waiting out front, and high-tension power lines running up the mountainside behind ; small town streets lined with banks and stores ; and even a careful and detailed reconstruction of the diner in Edward Hopper's famous painting Nighthawks, complete with customers, nested up against a two-story beige brick building that had beside it an equally tall red brick building, upon the wall of which was mounted a billboard for an ' East End Hardware ' store with their slogan ' Nuts To You!

Hopper's and New
Hopper's funeral took place on June 3, 2010 at San Francisco de Asis Mission Church in Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico.
Hopper's rural New England scenes, such as Gas ( 1940 ), are no less meaningful.
Each of the twelve chapters in New Zealander Chris Bell's 2004 novel Liquidambar ( UKA Press / PABD ) interprets one of Hopper's paintings to create a surreal detective story.
To establish the lighting of scenes in Road to Perdition, Mendes drew from the paintings of Edward Hopper as a source of inspiration, particularly Hopper's New York Movie ( 1939 ).
" In her review for the New York Times, Janet Maslin wrote, " Mr. Hopper's direction is tough and stylish, in effective contrast with the sunny look of Ueli Steiger's cinematography.
Music programming includes Peter Bochan's All Mixed Up, Music of the Grateful Dead and more on Morning Dew, Jeannie Hopper's Liquid Sound Lounge on Saturdays, Chico Alvarez's New World Gallery on Sunday afternoons and David Kenney's Everything Old Is New Again, a mix of pop and jazz standards, show tunes, cabaret and interviews on Sunday evenings.
Hopper's biographer, Gail Levin, speculates that Hopper may have been inspired by Vincent Van Gogh's " sinister Night Café ", which was showing at a gallery in New York in January 1942.

Hopper's and Movie
* Burns, Dan E., " Dennis Hopper's The Last Movie: Beginning of the End ,", in Literature / Film Quarterly, 1979
The result was 1971's The Last Movie, which was a notable box office and critical failure, effectively ending Hopper's career as a director for well over a decade.
He plays a film director in Dennis Hopper's ill-fated The Last Movie ( 1971 ); an Army colonel in Steven Spielberg's 1941 ( 1979 ); a war correspondent in his own The Big Red One ( scene deleted in the original release, restored in the reconstructed version ), a talent agent in his film White Dog ( 1981 ), and a cameraman in Wim Wenders ' The State of Things ( 1982 ).

Hopper's and was
In 1997, the episode " Hedda Hopper's Hollywood " was ranked # 62 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time.
Hopper's last performance was filmed just before his death: The Last Film Festival, slated for a 2011 release.
His father had a mild nature, and the household was dominated by women: Hopper's mother, grandmother, sister, and maid.
Hopper's most systematic declaration of his philosophy as an artist was given in a handwritten note, titled " Statement ", submitted in 1953 to the journal, Reality:
Girlie Show was inspired by Hopper's visit to a burlesque show a few days earlier.
Polish composer Paweł Szymański's Compartment 2, Car 7 for violin, viola, cello and vibraphone ( 2003 ) was inspired by Hopper's Compartment C, Car 193.
This was the beginning of Hopper's popularity in Europe and his large worldwide reputation.
Inspired by 2001: A Space Odyssey, one of Hopper's proposed cuts was 220 minutes long, including extensive use of the " flash-forward " narrative device, wherein scenes from later in the movie are inserted into the current scene.
It was unveiled in March 2010, shortly before Hopper's death.
Reviewed in major publications, Dahl was considered a writer-of-note and his appearances in Hollywood to follow up with the film project were met with notices in Hedda Hopper's columns.
His paintings such as Sunset Streets ( 1985 ) and Flatland River ( 1997 ) are noted for their hyper realism, and are in some ways similar to Edward Hopper's work, who was fascinated with mundane scenes from everyday American life.
" Adams was Dennis Hopper's roommate during this period and the three reportedly socialized together, with Presley "... hanging out more and more with Nick and his friends " and glad his manager " liked Nick.
Hopper's role with Soft Machine was initially as the group's road manager, but he already composed for their first album The Soft Machine and played bass on one of its tracks.
In the spring of 1971, Clark was commissioned by Dennis Hopper to contribute the tracks " American Dreamer " and " Outlaw Song " to Hopper's film project American Dreamer.
Houston's vocal was on a cover version of Hugh Hopper's " Memories ", which also featured a lead break by saxophonist Archie Shepp.
For example, " Into the Night " begins with the whispered words " Now it's dark ", a line which was repeatedly spoken by Frank Booth, Dennis Hopper's character, in Blue Velvet.
Hopper's debut motion picture appearance was as a baby in his father's 1916 silent movie, Sunshine Dad.
" Bird Song " was essentially Ray Price's " You Done Me Wrong " with altered lyrics and was prominently featured in Dennis Hopper's film Easy Rider.

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