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Nighthawks, Hopper
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| Author: | Edward Hopper |
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| Original Title: | Nighthawks |
| Type: | Painting |
| Medium | Oil |
| Support: | Canvas |
| Year: | 1942 |
| Subject: | City life |
| Located: | Instituto de Arte de Chicago |
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Depicts the night in a New York bar and its last customers. The work was an American icon for the young people of the time. The image clearly shows the loneliness of the big city and of modern existence.
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Nighthawks, Hopper
Sale price$241.00 USD
Why is this painting famous?
Nighthawks by Edward Hopper became an iconic poster in university settings because it embodies, with a clean aesthetic and ambiguous narrative, feelings that resonate with that stage of life: shared solitude, long nights, and the sensation of being “both inside and outside” the world at the same time. Its cinematic composition and neon light invite the viewer to invent stories—something that connects with young and creative minds. Moreover, its ambiguity makes it universal: it neither judges nor explains, but simply presents a scene that each viewer completes in their own way, giving it a cultural power that transcends academic art to become a symbol of contemporary introspection. Discover more famous paintingsARTIST DATA
Edward Hopper
| Full Name: | Edward Hopper. |
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| Birth: | 1882, New York. |
| Death: | 1967, New York. |
| Style: | American Realism. |
Edward Hopper was an American painter of the modernist period, known for capturing like no one else the solitude and suspended calm of urban life. A master of American Realism, he transformed everyday scenes —an empty gas station, a diner lit at dawn, a window open to silence— into reflections on modern existence. His work doesn’t just show buildings or figures: it reveals the space between them, that moment when time seems to stop and the soul looks inward.
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