Studying Nighthawks

1. -This painting is called Nighthawks

-The Artist is named Edward Hopper

- Hopper is from Nyack, New York

- The painting Nighthawks was made in 1942

- The medium that was used to make the work was oil on canvas

2. My first impressions of the painting was that I pictured a calm theme going on through the artist's head when he was drawing this picture. By the picture, it looks like a cafe that is on a lonely street with not many people in it. The cafe seems to look like it is in a city with the buildings behind it. When I first looked at it the thing that caught my attention is the inside of the cafe where the white is because it looks like thats where all the attention is and it is very bright compared to the other colors in the drawing.

3. Nighthawks shows people sitting down in a downtown diner in Greenwich Village at night. The painting can refer to the term 'night owl', which is used to explain "someone who stays up late." It is one of Edward Hopper famous paintings, as many people could acknowledge it in art today. He started painting this right after Pearl Harbor, as it was an event that had feelings have depression all around the world, just like the attitude in the painting. The painting includes three people lost in their own unknown thoughts.

4. The artist uses the principles of design in some ways. He contrasted the white in the diner with the other colors in the painting. The white really stands out from the other colors, since it is so bright and the other colors are dark and dull, which doesn't catch my attention ask easily. Also, Hopper shows asymmetry in his painting. There is no balance and if you cut a line through the middle, nothing would be even on either side of the painting. In addition, I think that the artist is grouping the guy in the black jacket, and trying to emphasize him . There are two people across from him that are in a conversation, and then a lonely guy who looks like an outsider and unhappy.