Talk:Sun in an Empty Room

Sun in an Empty Room is currently an Art and architecture good article nominee. Nominated by Viriditas (talk) at 22:58, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

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Short description: 1963 painting by Edward Hopper

A fact from Sun in an Empty Room appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 1 February 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Edward Hopper wondered what an empty room would look like with no one to see it?

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Emotional response

Looking through the literature, this appears to be one of those works that reduces people to tears when they see it in person. I would like to add this to the article if at all possible. Viriditas (talk) 22:25, 20 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

My guess is that the people are experiencing Stendhal syndrome. Viriditas (talk) 22:36, 20 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Legacy

To do:

Victor Burgin, Office at Night (1986) (one of seven)[1]
Michael Mann, Groves & Thrasyvoulou 2008 ("Against the Flow of Time: Michael Mann and Edward Hopper")
Mathieu Amalric, Next to Last (2012).[2]
Claude Esteban (Soleil dans une pièce vide)
- Esteban is covered in the main biographical article.
Michael Banning[3]

Exhibitions

To do:

Art Institute of Chicago
Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts

Suspense

Production designer Robert F. Boyle on the "penultimate moment"; Hitchcock employed Hopper's stye in the development of suspense leading up to the delivery of action[4]
"The anticipatory time before [or after] something happens".
- State or feeling of excited or anxious uncertainty about what may have happened or is about to happen
- Sun in an Empty Room could depict a room after someone has moved out. Metaphor for death?
- Video has an archival photo of Hopper painting Sun in an Empty Room with his wife watching him.[5]
  - Oddly, the image credit is dated 1964. According to Levin, he did not paint much that year, if at all.

Provenance

Unknown, but likely discussed in Edward Hopper: A Catalogue Raisonné, which I do not have access to at this time. Viriditas (talk) 08:02, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Influence

Degas, Manet? Viriditas (talk) 08:05, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by DirtyHarry991 talk 10:52, 27 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Edward Hopper wondered what an empty room would look like with no one to see it? Source: Iversen, Margaret (September 2018). "The World without a Self: Edward Hopper and Chantal Akerman". Art History. 41 (4): 742–760. doi:10.1111/1467-8365.12398.
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Boys Town (Beaudesert)

Created by Viriditas (talk). Self-nominated at 21:30, 24 January 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Sun in an Empty Room; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

Starting review. Zeete (talk) 19:13, 25 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
New (created January 18), long enough (over 6,500 per DYK check and discounting long quotes), cited, neutral, Earwig reported violation possible, 50.7%, for one source, but long quotation, other sources violation unlikely, also quotations, QPQ done, hook interesting, cited (interesting reference), length checked ok. Very interesting article about a seemingly empty room. Good to go! Thanks, Zeete (talk) 19:43, 25 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]