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only way to fght this nausea was to look inward and fnd agency. By the 1950s however, existentialism became a more popular philosophy, especially with the help of American philosopher William Barrett, who investigated the historical and sociological signifcance of existentialism. Thus we set the scene for Hopper’s renditions of New York, women, and architecture.

Edward Hopper can be described as a pensive, solitudinous man who believed that the core of art could be found in an artist’s personality, and this was the defning aspect of originality in a world inevitably run on recreation. Hopper explored the world around him through a lens of aloneness more so than loneliness and utilized the simplicity of space, such as light, perspective, and water, to represent himself on the canvas. The many women he painted are often found in front of windows, seated or posing in such a way as to reveal their contemplation of life. His use of horizontal and vertical lines and their interactions, be it in the form of light coming through a window at an angle, or the end of a room seating a well-dressed