To Look: The Scene Of The Seen By Edward Hopper

In “To look: The scene of the seen in Edward Hopper”, Jackson highlights Edward Hopper’s depiction of the double act of looking on canvas with transformation between imagination and reality. “Double act of looking” described by Jackson is that “We look at those who are looking at something else, and our act is duplicated in the act represented on the canvas” (136). For example, Room in Brooklyn portrays a woman who looks outside of the window and her back is showed to us so that as spectators, we can’t tell for sure what scenery the woman is looking at. The painting was created in 1932, which was in the period of the Great Depression. According to Jackson’s critique on Hopper’s masterpieces, “Hopper’s Rudimentary sense of composition is sufficient