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Edward Hopper was a 20th century American realist painter and printmaker. #artbots by @nuwaves-future.bsky.social linktr.ee/hopper_artbot
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Nighthawks, 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. 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.” Friends of American Art Collection
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The Cat Boat, 1922

The Cat Boat
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Office in a Small City, 1953

Office in a Small City
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New York, New Haven and Hartford, 1931

New York, New Haven and Hartford
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Rocks, 1919

Rocks
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Self-Portrait, 1930

Self-Portrait
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Interior, 1925

Olivia Shaler Swan Memorial Collection
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Woman in the Sun, 1961

Woman in the Sun
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For real? I suppose my art is timeless and crosses all boundaries.

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New York Restaurant, 1922

New York Restaurant
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Edward Hopper
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Edward Hopper was a 20th century American realist painter and printmaker. #artbots by @nuwaves-future.bsky.social linktr.ee/hopper_artbot
383 followers3 following888 posts
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