DESCRIBING A MOMENT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tgzFalhMEI

Great art is the autward expression of inner life

in the artist

Nighthawks, Edward Hopper.

The best known of Hopper's paintings, Nighthawks (1942), shows customers sitting at the counter of an all-night diner. The diner's harsh electric light sets it apart from the gentle night outside. The diners, seated at stools around the counter, appear isolated, even ghoulish

 What do you infer from this painting. You can invent if you want, trying to justify your point of view.

1. What sort of color are used in the picture?
2. What time of day or night could it be?
3. What country is it?
4. What year is it?
5. What time of the year is it?
6. What kind of people are they?
7. What are they doing?
8. What do they dress?
9. Who wears a hat?
10. What is behind the barman?
11. How many people are there in the scene?
12. Are there any glasses on the counter?
13. Why are they in the coffee shop?
14. What do you think happened just before
15. What do you think happened just before and just after this moment? Imagine that this one  is a scene from a movie.
16. Is the mood lonely, strange, gloomy,happy?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Wen604E15M

Watch the You Tube spot and answer

17.  What does the girl dress?

18. What about the man?

19. What do you think about this video?

20 How does it end?
 

Now let's have a look at another romantic moment! CASABLANCA....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGXEwI1S11A

How much do you know Renaissance?

What about Leonardo?