alt Hacker NewsEdward Hopper's Iconic Painting, "Nighthawks
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nighthawks_(Hopper)
Wikipedia has a higher quality version of the painting, click the image in the article to see it.
> "He was about a month and a half working on it—interested all the time, too busy to get excited over public outrages. So, we stay out of fights.”
I wonder if public outrages distract more artists away from their art, or drive more to it as sanctuary or catharsis.
This has recently been put back on display at The Art Institute in Chicago; and it is more wonderful in person. The interior glows with fluorescent light, a richness of color mixing that digital scans do not really capture yet.
For Hopper fans - the movie "Shirley: Visions of Reality" is a series of vignettes based on Hopper's paintings. Veeeeeery slow, but quite rewarding if you're into this sort of thing.
The National Gallery in DC had a show of Hopper's works a number of years ago that I got to see.
Amazing work. He's one of my favorite artists. Nighthawks was there, great to see it in person.
I don’t know why it makes me feel so calm looking at this painting. Something just feels normal and boring but a great sense of peace. Fast forward a few weeks, after a multiple week trip to Tokyo, I think I know why: a sense of solitude I haven’t experienced in the busy streets of Tokyo.
There’s an old board game called ‘Masterpiece’, you buy and sell famous paintings and forgeries. You handle postcard sized prints that act as playing cards.
It’s a great game, teaches kids how to recognize artworks and artists. Nighthawks was always one of my favorite pieces to own.
The wine-pairing for this painting is listening to Night Moves by Bob Seger.
The guy on the left is looking at his phone.
"Nighthawks" was late father's favorite painting.
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Man, fuck this website. Opened on mobile and trying to admire the painting and I get 4 popups in a row obscuring it every few seconds. Fuck whoever designed that and doubly fuck whoever signed off on it. Absolutely abhorrent behaviour that is totally hostile and disrespectful to both the user and to the material being presented.
This painting is in the Chicago Art Institute.
The two other iconic paintings in their collection are:
-Grant Wood's American Gothic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Gothic
-George Seurat's A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Sunday_Afternoon_on_the_Isla...
All of these paintings were purchased for a tiny fraction of their current value (Hopper, $3,000; Seurat, $20,000).
https://ladykflo.com/a-sunday-on-la-grande-jatte-by-georges-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Institute_of_Chicago