Crafting a series of clever animations, to mark 50 years since Hopper's death, they have injected movement into the otherwise static images —
from Automat and Chop Suey to Lighthouse Hill, and — of course (how could they not)-- his most famous artwork, Nighthawks.
Not exact matches
The
automats were essentially giant, wall - sized vending machines that dispensed sandwiches, slices of pie and other goodies
from little windows.
Instead, you put your money in a machine and get your food
from a slot, much like the popular
automats of the 50s.
Documentary of the Year (theatrical release, TV airing or DVD release) The Act of Killing (Drafthouse) Blackfish (Magnolia, CNN) Bridegroom (Own, Virgil Films) I Am Divine (
Automat, Wolfe) 20 Feet
from Stardom (Radius - TWC)
You can also collect money and purchase keys
from the vending
automats found in strategic places.
What are we to make of the girl with a scuffed face in The Preservation (2001), partially shrouded in what looks to be transparent plastic - wrapping; or the series of truncated
Automats he made in 2008 — 09, which turn away
from the viewer like broken Degas dancers?
They are media machines,
Automats of a sort, which involve the viewer in their mechanics; they reflect an era of transition
from literally mechanical reproduction to electronic saturation.
The Art Center's success in this approach to collecting can be seen in noteworthy examples such as Georgia O'Keeffe's
From the Lake No. 1, 1924; Edward Hopper's
Automat, 1927; Jean Dubuffet's The Village with Close - Cropped Hair, 1947; Francis Bacon's Study of Velásquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X, 1953; Frank Stella's Union Pacific, 1960; Richard Diebenkorn's Ocean Park No. 70, 1974... among many others.