Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks depicts a diner on a city street at night. The businesses surrounding the diner are visible, but the diner is the focal point. The diner appears to be the main source of light. Inside the diner there are four people, three sitting around a bar while the fourth is behind the bar serving customers. A man and a woman are sitting directly next to each other facing us, on the other side of the bar, a man is sitting alone with his back to us. The painting does not use very many stark, sharp lines. Opting for softer, rounded lines and layered lines. Most straight lines in the painting are used on the building, specifically the windows and doors. The shadows cast outside are depicted by angled lines, indicating the light source outside the diner. The contrast of the finer lines within the diner and …show more content…
Each character looks away from the viewer and those around them. The woman has her arms propped up around her as a barrier to those around her. The man beside her is leaning in, attempting to get her attention. Their hands, like themselves, are close together but not touching. This man, although trying to get her attention, has this vacant, pensive appearance on his face. All of the characters seem to be lost in their own thoughts, acting out the motions of being present. The man behind the counter is separated from the patron by the bar, which also has no entrance or exit. He is stuck, trapped in his work. The third man, although we cannot see his face, is hunched in solitude, exuding intensity. This intensity is emphasized by the shadows and darkness shrouding him. All the figures appear to be stuck in their own existential angst. The window to the diner is almost emphasized by its lack of presence, the viewer is allowed fully into the world within this diner through their gaze. There is no door into the diner, leaving the viewer outside with the only entrance being one's
Poems about “Nighthawks” "Nighthawks" (1942), a famous painting from Edward Hopper, has been the subject of many poems. Most of the poems attempt to tell the story of the four people painted in the scene. The scene portrays a diner during the night or early morning before the sun comes up, and it is viewed outside on a dark street as someone is looking in. There is nothing threatening about this scene and it suggests there is no danger around the corner; it gives the people in this painting a
In the small town of Charleston, an older, lonely man sits at the bar in a Diner. A young couple sat at the other end drinking coffee. The woman was dressed nice in a pretty red dress and the man looking dapper with his blue suit and hat. The older man is a regular at this diner. He arrives at the same time, sits on the same stool, and is always dressed nice as if he were about to meet someone. He never did though. The waiter knows the older man by name and says, "Hey Hopper, anything new today
The Nighthawks by Edward Hopper is considered two-dimensional art. Some examples of two dimensional art is paintings, drawings and photographs. This painting is considered two-dimensional art because it was painted on a flat canvas and can only be observed in terms of height and width. This piece is not considered three-dimensional because it does not occupy space or have mass. Although this painting does not occupy space, it does imitate three-dimensional space or depth. Edward Hopper was a realist
Katie Randazzo George Tysh Film Noir & Beyond 17 March 2014 Pulp Fiction- “Sequence Analysis” Pulp Fiction is a film that is structured around three story-lines. Vincent Vega is the lead in the first story. In the second storyline, Butch Coolidge is the lead, and Jules Winnfield, is the lead of the third. Each storyline targets a different series of incidents but they connect and intersect in numerous ways. “The film starts out with a diner hold-up staged by "Pumpkin" and "Honey Bunny," then picks
Edward Hopper's Nighthawks takes place in a lonely city that is lifeless between the streets, the diner, and the buildings that arise behind it. While the light within the diner aluminates through the windows and latches on to the dark gloomy streets, four people sit in inaudible silence as the chef cleans out a glass. A woman with a red dress that matches her flowing hair sits looking uninterested and exhausted while she examines her hand. Meanwhile, two men in black suits with stern postures beam
meanings that one does not notice upon first glance. Thirty years later in 1942, famed American artist Edward Cooper was placing his finishing touches on his masterpiece Nighthawks, which was a painting that expressed both the general feelings of the time as well as Cooper's overall life experience. Both Two Woman and Nighthawks have much in common due to their personalities and experience with isolation and loneliness, which are reflected in their art. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was a German artist
depicting forsaken farms and “For Sale” signs on suburban streets. (Spaulding) Edwards Hopper is known for about 24+ famous paintings ranging from 1921 to 1963 but we are going to focus on just 3 of them: The Drugstore, 1927, New York Movie, 1939 and Nighthawks, 1942. The Drug Store was painted in 1927 and sold for 1,500 to a Boston lawyer who favored bold images. The painting was an oil painting on a canvas. It depicts Silbers Pharmacy which is located on the corner of the street. It focuses light on
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Realism and Attention to Detail in Edward Hopper's Night Hawks In the following essay the painting Nighthawks by Edward Hopper will be analyzed to determine what messages the artist was trying to convey to the viewer, and the significance of the very detailed depiction of the figures occupying the diner. The realism style of the painting that contributes greatly to the intense effect on the viewer, chosen for this reason, will be explored as well. The somber and lonely mood of the painting will
realism movement, painting scenes that depicted ordinary people in typical contemporary life. His works have been known to instill deep emotions in his audience, especially those of loneliness and even depression. One of his most well-known pieces is Nighthawks, which portrays four people in a diner, the only source of light in the unusually dark streets of an unnamed city. The buildings across the street from the restaurant are dark and empty, keeping the viewer’s focus on the diner, which takes up most
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