Visual Analysis Edward Hopper NightHawks
Visual Analysis: Edward Hopper: Nighthawks
In this essay I will be looking into the visual analysis of the Painting Nighthawks by Edward Hopper. First I will be discussing his life.
Edward Hopper was born on the 22nd July 1882 in Nyack, New York. He came from a middle class family, and had an older sister named Marian. Like most famous painters he enjoyed drawing from a young age, and at the age of ten signatures were found on his work. He showed an interest in the artists Gustav Dore and Phil May, whose Illustrations he’d copy eagerly. From his early teens he was already working with a range of mediums such as charcoal, ink and oil paints. He sold his first signed oil painting when he was 13 entitled Rowboat in Rocky cove.
He attended a private school and Nyack High school where he graduated at 17 years of age. His parents had always supported and encouraged his art so when he told them he wanted to study painting at university there were no objections, only that Illustration or Commercial art would offer more financial security. So he enrolled in the Correspondence school of Illustrating
But decided to transfer a year later to Chase school and switched to painting.
Hopper died at the age of 84 leaving behind him a body of about 3000 paintings. The majority of his paintings are viewpoints which seem to always include women. When taking a closer look , there is a vulnerability in many of the women but you are never really able to place your finger on whether they are in a state of loneliness solitude or desolation. This is a reoccurring theme throughout Hoppers work. Ideas of gender roles run through my head in that in his paintings women are always seen as the inferior counterpart to men. For example his paintings Hotel by the rail road, Office at night and The barber shop.
Nighthawks an oil painting he is very well-known for and probably his most famous. It was created is 1942 and was said to be inspired by ‘A restaurant on Greenwich Avenue
In this essay I will be looking into the visual analysis of the Painting Nighthawks by Edward Hopper. First I will be discussing his life.
Edward Hopper was born on the 22nd July 1882 in Nyack, New York. He came from a middle class family, and had an older sister named Marian. Like most famous painters he enjoyed drawing from a young age, and at the age of ten signatures were found on his work. He showed an interest in the artists Gustav Dore and Phil May, whose Illustrations he’d copy eagerly. From his early teens he was already working with a range of mediums such as charcoal, ink and oil paints. He sold his first signed oil painting when he was 13 entitled Rowboat in Rocky cove.
He attended a private school and Nyack High school where he graduated at 17 years of age. His parents had always supported and encouraged his art so when he told them he wanted to study painting at university there were no objections, only that Illustration or Commercial art would offer more financial security. So he enrolled in the Correspondence school of Illustrating
But decided to transfer a year later to Chase school and switched to painting.
Hopper died at the age of 84 leaving behind him a body of about 3000 paintings. The majority of his paintings are viewpoints which seem to always include women. When taking a closer look , there is a vulnerability in many of the women but you are never really able to place your finger on whether they are in a state of loneliness solitude or desolation. This is a reoccurring theme throughout Hoppers work. Ideas of gender roles run through my head in that in his paintings women are always seen as the inferior counterpart to men. For example his paintings Hotel by the rail road, Office at night and The barber shop.
Nighthawks an oil painting he is very well-known for and probably his most famous. It was created is 1942 and was said to be inspired by ‘A restaurant on Greenwich Avenue