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Publication History. Gail Levin, “Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks, Surrealism, and the War,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 22, 2 (1996), 180–95, fig. 1. James N. Wood and Teri J. Edelstein, The Art Institute of Chicago: Twentieth–Century Painting and Sculpture (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1996), 85 (ill.).
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6 de dez. de 2023 · Nighthawks is one of Hopper’s New York City paintings, and the artist said that it was based on a real café. Many people have tried to find the exact setting of the painting, but have failed. In his wife’s diaries, she wrote that she and Hopper himself both served as models for the people in the painting.
Nighthawks is a 1942 oil-on-canvas painting by the American artist Edward Hopper that portrays four people in a downtown diner late at night as viewed through the diner's large glass window. The light coming from the diner illuminates a darkened and deserted urban streetscape.
7 de out. de 2021 · Known as one of the more popular, and widely reproduced, American oil paintings from the Modern 20th-century art is Nighthawks (1942) by Edward Hopper. Often described as a “timeless” painting, it depicts an every day – or every night – scene of four people in a diner.
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- Edward Hopper was born in 1882 in a town called Nyack in New York, United States. He was artistically inclined from a young age, around five years...
- Nighthawks by Edward Hopper was given its name because of the sharp shape of the man’s nose sitting next to the woman. His nose resembles that of a...
- The Nighthawks painting value was $3000 in 1942, the year it was sold to the Art Institute of Chicago for the above price and only a few months aft...
- A widely searched diner, Hopper stated that the diner painting was “suggested by a restaurant on Greenwich Avenue where two streets meet”. However,...
In Hopper’s most iconic painting, Nighthawks (1942; Art Institute of Chicago), four customers and a waiter inhabit the brightly lit interior of a city diner at night. They appear lost in their own weariness and private concerns, their disconnection perhaps echoing the wartime anxiety felt by the nation as a whole.
Edward Hopper 1942. Edward Hopper said that “Nighthawks” was inspired by “a restaurant on New York’s Greenwich Avenue where two streets meet,” but the image—with its carefully constructed composition and lack of narrative—has a timeless, universal quality that transcends its particular locale.
6 de dez. de 2023 · The painting reflects the fear and anxiety of the time, as well as the emptiness of many urban areas as both men and women went overseas for the war. The use of warm light inside and cold light outside helps foster a sense of separation and alienation, as does the use of strong geometric shapes and lines.
