1. This Nighthawks by Edward Hopper. He's from Nyack, New York. This painting was made 1942, it is oil paint on a canvas.
2. My first impression of this painting is that it seems like he was in a good mood when he made it. The colors seem happy and the lines are spaced out, making it very open. Even though it's late a night, it doesn't seem like like something climactic is about to happen. It just seems like lonely people in a diner.
3. This is a painting based on a diner on Greenwich Avenue in New York City, which was destroyed. This though unintetionaly, captures the lonliness and the worry going on in the USA at the time because of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Hopper is quoted to have said, "unconciencally, probably, I was painting the loneliness of a large city."
4. Hopper draws your eye to the white space inside the diner with the contrast of light and dark outside. Also the bottom of the window is a leading line, focusing your eye on the bar at the diner
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