Edward Hopper Nighthawks Analysis

Nighthawks Under Light
“Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.” This quote almost perfectly describes what Hopper does is in the painting “Nighthawks”. He reflects his inner life through the people in the painting and who they are. The people that are so deep in thought and aren't even worried about the physical things around them, like people and time. This shows how Hopper’s mindset is, he may not stay up all night and particularly be a “nighthawk”, but he ponders and thinks in a seclusive state. The overall thought that Hopper described in this painting is the way nature and modern civilization interact and what is happening.

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It can be said that Hopper was obviously Anti-urbanization, like how Slater puts it in Fear of the city 1882–1967: Edward Hopper and the discourse of anti-urbanism, “However, I argue that the meanings conveyed by Hopper’s art are not bound to any time period; they live on through the legacy of anti-urban sentiment by which he was influenced and to which he contributed”. It was Hoppers “thing” to illustrate his distaste for the current rate of urbanization. He displays on how it blocks the natures natural beauties and how it's not beautiful compared to the wide landscapes of tree’s and a gleaming sun. All urbanized paintings like Nighthawks usually gloomy and hold a meaning of anti urbanization because of this and the cold colors he uses, but even paintings like Gas Station have a bright, warm and beautiful setting with a wonderful landscape background, but then shows a sign of urbanization (the gas station before you enter the woods) hinting that back that ways is the cultivating of modern culture and up ahead is the natural beauty to escape all that. That is what Hopper is shooting for in his meaning of Man versus Nature. Not that Mankind's modernization is very ugly but that mother nature is so much more beautiful and peaceful and is being covered

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