Nighthawks
Artist: Edward Hopper
Year Composed: 1942
Artistic Movement: Modernism
Nationality: United States
Floor Found in Château: First Floor
Year Composed: 1942
Artistic Movement: Modernism
Nationality: United States
Floor Found in Château: First Floor
About the Artwork
Edward Hopper's Nighthawks is one of the most recognizable paintings in American art history. Sold for a mere $3,000 just months after its completion in 1942, Hopper's painting portrays a small diner on a street corner, being visited by three figures during the night. The rest of the rustling and bustling of the daily urban life is nonexistent within the background of the scene, as the main light source to illuminate the diner comes from its ceiling lights. The overall mood of the piece is calmness and serenity, which is quite the opposite of what would appear on this corner during the day of industrial, urban life.
About the Artist
New York painter Edward Hopper was known for his oil and watercolor paintings that depicted Modern scenes of both urban and rural life in America, or at least what was Modern to Hopper. Within the realm of Realism, Hopper's style of Modern art included diluted hues and muted lighting, adding a sense of emotion of mood to the otherwise industrial or agricultural scenes. These scenes were idealized in the sense that they represent America as a whole during the 20th Century (or during the 1900s) as opposed to specific locations around the United States. These idealizations were found within his paintings that included his Chop Suey (1929), Hotel Lobby (1943), and his most iconic Nighthawks (1942).
About the Movement
Nighthawks was composed in the Modernist Age of art. Modernism was a philosophical movement that influenced art during the late stages of the 19th Century and into the 20th (or the later decades of the 1800s into the 1900s). Artists during this time rejected the religious and spiritual themes of the Enlightenment, and Modernists showcased rhetoric of modern society and industrialism. Some of the most famous Modernist artists included Henri Matisse, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Georgia O'Keeffe.
Location of Original Work of Art: Art Institute of Chicago Building, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Edward Hopper's Nighthawks is one of the most recognizable paintings in American art history. Sold for a mere $3,000 just months after its completion in 1942, Hopper's painting portrays a small diner on a street corner, being visited by three figures during the night. The rest of the rustling and bustling of the daily urban life is nonexistent within the background of the scene, as the main light source to illuminate the diner comes from its ceiling lights. The overall mood of the piece is calmness and serenity, which is quite the opposite of what would appear on this corner during the day of industrial, urban life.
About the Artist
New York painter Edward Hopper was known for his oil and watercolor paintings that depicted Modern scenes of both urban and rural life in America, or at least what was Modern to Hopper. Within the realm of Realism, Hopper's style of Modern art included diluted hues and muted lighting, adding a sense of emotion of mood to the otherwise industrial or agricultural scenes. These scenes were idealized in the sense that they represent America as a whole during the 20th Century (or during the 1900s) as opposed to specific locations around the United States. These idealizations were found within his paintings that included his Chop Suey (1929), Hotel Lobby (1943), and his most iconic Nighthawks (1942).
About the Movement
Nighthawks was composed in the Modernist Age of art. Modernism was a philosophical movement that influenced art during the late stages of the 19th Century and into the 20th (or the later decades of the 1800s into the 1900s). Artists during this time rejected the religious and spiritual themes of the Enlightenment, and Modernists showcased rhetoric of modern society and industrialism. Some of the most famous Modernist artists included Henri Matisse, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Georgia O'Keeffe.
Location of Original Work of Art: Art Institute of Chicago Building, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America