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presentation :

the title of this painting is nighthawks.
it was painted by edward hopper in 1942. it is 84 cms wide and 152cms long.
it is exhibited at the art institute of chicago , llinois.
E. hopper was born in 1882 and he died in 1967. he was an american realist painter.

description :

the painting represents a downtown diner and its waiter with three nightime customers, the nighthawks of the title, all lost in their thoughts.

the scene takes place in a american city , probably in new york city where hopper lived , in a diner located at the corner of a street.
The main focus is on the interior of the restaurant seen through large window panes, from the standpoint of a passer-by walking past on the sidewalk. the restaurant takes up two thirds of the painting.

It is nighttime. The streets are dark and lit by the fluorescent light of the diner.

The painting is divided into three horizontal lines.
in the foreground, we can see the clean sidewalk lit by the artificial light of the diner which also cast some shadows on the pavement. In the upper part, at the top of the diner's building, we can notice an advertisement for the cigar brand name " Phillies".
in the middle ground, there are four characters: three customers who are sitting on stools and a waiter standing behind the counter. Right in the middle of the composition, there is a first customer a man seen from behind. he is wearing a grey suit and a hat. he is holding a glass in his hand and is sitting alone.
On the right, a couple is sitting in silence, they are not looking at each other and they don't seems to communicate . The man is wearing a black suit, a blue shirt and a grey hat. He looks neat. the woman is wearing a red blouse and red lipstick. she is holding a sandwich in her right hand. the blond-haired waiter standing in front of them is wearing a white jacket and a white cap.
They all seem to be lost in their thoughts, bored, weary, or worries and although the interior of the diner is a painted in bright colours, the atmosphere is rather tensed and grim.
In the background, inside the cafe, we can notice the metalic cofee tanks and the only door, wich is a service door actually. on the left, we can see the corner where the two streets meet: dark buildings with shopwindow , and windows, wich look empty.

analysis :

In this painting, Hopper shows weary people at night, maybe they can't sleep beacause something is worring them. We have to keep in mind that hopper completed this work in 1942, and the USA had entered WWII in december 1941. the setting is indeed strongly rooted in the USA : the restaurant from ( a diner ) , the architecture outside the restaurant , the sign of phillies cigars. so hopper's characters here reflect the mood of the country at that particular time: the American people worried about the situation. Meanwhile, their incapacity to communicate, to make eye contact , represents lonelliness of each individual in life. This is perceived as an inextricable human condition : there is no escape, as there is no visible doors in this diner.
So hopper shows here that although people might share common problems or worries, they are fundamentally alone to deal with them . this is probably what makes this work stil appealing today for anyone of us.