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Nighthawks

Edward Hopper1942

The Art Institute of Chicago

The Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, États-Unis

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. One of the best-known images of twentieth-century art, the painting depicts an all-night diner in which three customers, all lost in their own thoughts, have congregated. Hopper’s understanding of the expressive possibilities of light playing on simplified shapes gives the painting its beauty. Fluorescent lights had just come into use in the early 1940s, and the all-night diner emits an eerie glow, like a beacon on the dark street corner. Hopper eliminated any reference to an entrance, and the viewer, drawn to the light, is shut out from the scene by a seamless wedge of glass. The four anonymous and uncommunicative night owls seem as separate and remote from the viewer as they are from one another. (The red-haired woman was actually modeled by the artist’s wife, Jo.) Hopper denied that he purposefully infused this or any other of his paintings with symbols of human isolation and urban emptiness, but he acknowledged that in “Nighthawks” “unconsciously, probably, I was painting the loneliness of a large city.”

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  • Titre: Nighthawks
  • Créateur: Edward Hopper (American, 1882-1967)
  • Durée de vie du créateur: 1882 - 1967
  • Nationalité du créateur: American
  • Sexe du créateur: male
  • Lieu de naissance du créateur: Nyack
  • Lieu de décès du créateur: New York City
  • Date de création: 1942
  • Dimensions physiques: 84.1 × 152.4 cm (33 1/8 × 60 in.)
  • Type: Painting
  • Lien externe: The Art Institute of Chicago
  • Media: Oil on canvas
  • Credit Line: The Art Institute of Chicago, Friends of American Art Collection, 1942.51
  • Artist: Edward Hopper (American, 1882-1967)
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