The painting that I have chosen to study and read for this assignment is Edward Hoppers Nighthawks. Nighthawks was painted in 1942 and depicts a scene of 4 characters in a generic diner. (most likely real at one stage)
There are many intriguing factors in this painting that are important to its composition. Below are the ones that I have chosen to focus on within my design.
1.) Hopper use of lighting, the diner is bathed in artificial lighting while the streets around it
are dimly lit and dull.
2.) Entrapment, the diner shows no sense of entry or exit, a suggestive idea that the subjects within the diner are trapped and can not escape.
3.)The 3 figures themselves, their behaviour, body language, stature and overall appearance.
4.) The concept of the bar top as a progression of time.
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