Show Your Understanding

5 Put the sentences in order and practice the dialog with your
partner.
  • The yellow contrast in these paintings invites a range of emotions.
    I’m not sure what to feel.
  • You’re right.
    Hopper used yellow in combination with dark colors in order to emphasize the difference between warm and cold feelings.
  • 3
    Indeed.
    But I wonder why Hopper chose yellow instead of white.
  • 4
    Do you think he chose yellow because white and dark colors contrast too much?
  • 5
    I’m not sure.
    Yellow feels warm, like van Gogh’s Sunflowers, but Hopper’s paintings have an element of cold.
  • That’s probably why he didn’t choose white.
    I think he wanted to express the warmness of yellow in contrast with the cold, dark world.
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