1. This painting is called the Nighthawks, it was created by Edward Hopper in 1942. Edward Hopper was born in Nyack, New York, on July 22, 1882. The masterpiece was painted with oil on a canvas.
2. My first impressions of the painting was how it portrayed the shadows in detail. It looked made it look almost like a photograph. I also was impressed with the depth. Nothing was crooked or "off" their position.
3. Edward Hopper was a painter who studied for five years under Robert Henri, a member of the Ashcan School of painters. He doesn't paint the chaos of urban, he paints about urban isolation. He painted the Nighthawks to show the loneliness of life in the city during late nights. A nighthawk is like a night owl to Hopper, he refers it to people who stay up late; like the people in the diner in the painting.
4. He emphasized the diner by contrast; he gave the diner a bright light, compared to the dark and glum outside. I like how the light in the diner flooded out to the street through the window casting specific shadows.