Year 1929 Artist Edward Hopper Location Private collection Media Oil paint | Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 81 cm x 96 cm Created 1929 Periods Social realism, Modernism | |
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Chop Suey (1929) is a painting by Edward Hopper. The foreground of the work portrays two women in conversation at a restaurant.
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- Chop suey painting story final version
- Subject
- Recreations
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Chop suey painting story final version
Subject
According to art scholar David Anfam, one "striking detail of Chop Suey is that its female subject faces her doppelgänger." Others have pointed out it would not be so unusual for two women to be wearing similar hats, and that it is presumptuous to claim doppelgängers when one subject's face is not visible to the viewer. The painting has an interior subject matter, being inside of a cafe, and does not focus on any one given figure. As with many of Hopper's works, the painting features close attention to the effects of light on his subjects.
Recreations
A bumper played on the cable channel Turner Classic Movies, titled The Sunny Side of Life, was inspired by Chop Suey and other Hopper paintings [1]