Wikipedia has a higher quality version of the painting, click the image in the article to see it.
jakzurr 3 hours ago [-]
Yeah, it's great on my desktop. Love the article (well, both of them).
Always had a great nostalgia for this image. Is it just me, or do other night owls find it soothing, quiet, and productive for deep thoughts? (Even if it's just thoughts about games.)
delichon 44 minutes ago [-]
> "He was about a month and a half working on it—interested all the time, too busy to get excited over public outrages. So, we stay out of fights.”
I wonder if public outrages distract more artists away from their art, or drive more to it as sanctuary or catharsis.
nickhalfasleep 3 hours ago [-]
This has recently been put back on display at The Art Institute in Chicago; and it is more wonderful in person. The interior glows with fluorescent light, a richness of color mixing that digital scans do not really capture yet.
ajay-b 4 hours ago [-]
Great Art Explained did a wonderful episode on this.
For Hopper fans - the movie "Shirley: Visions of Reality" is a series of vignettes based on Hopper's paintings. Veeeeeery slow, but quite rewarding if you're into this sort of thing.
I don’t know why it makes me feel so calm looking at this painting. Something just feels normal and boring but a great sense of peace. Fast forward a few weeks, after a multiple week trip to Tokyo, I think I know why: a sense of solitude I haven’t experienced in the busy streets of Tokyo.
chris_st 2 hours ago [-]
The National Gallery in DC had a show of Hopper's works a number of years ago that I got to see.
Amazing work. He's one of my favorite artists. Nighthawks was there, great to see it in person.
dogscatstrees 3 hours ago [-]
The wine-pairing for this painting is listening to Night Moves by Bob Seger.
nekopa 2 hours ago [-]
Thanks, didn't realize I needed this.
RickJWagner 41 minutes ago [-]
There’s an old board game called ‘Masterpiece’, you buy and sell famous paintings and forgeries. You handle postcard sized prints that act as playing cards.
It’s a great game, teaches kids how to recognize artworks and artists. Nighthawks was always one of my favorite pieces to own.
intrasight 2 hours ago [-]
"Nighthawks" was late father's favorite painting.
trevithick 2 hours ago [-]
The guy on the left is looking at his phone.
tensegrist 3 hours ago [-]
does hn's title rewriter apply s/(^"|"$)// blindly
bartread 3 hours ago [-]
Man, fuck this website. Opened on mobile and trying to admire the painting and I get 4 popups in a row obscuring it every few seconds. Fuck whoever designed that and doubly fuck whoever signed off on it. Absolutely abhorrent behaviour that is totally hostile and disrespectful to both the user and to the material being presented.
fn-mote 3 hours ago [-]
Just FYI - Firefox mobile cuts this down to one “dismiss without supporting” coverup.
I had to go check with another browser to confirm the nasty behavior you described. Which does happen.
bartread 1 hours ago [-]
Thanks: I should give it a go. Safari runs really well on iOS but the lack of an adblocker is a real pain. Firefox + ublock origin has been my goto on desktop since before Chrome deprecated Manifest V2 support, so I probably should at least try it on mobile.
bell-cot 45 minutes ago [-]
If you disrespected them by default-disabling js, your browsing experience would improve at the expense of their metrics.
The two other iconic paintings in their collection are:
-Grant Wood's American Gothic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Gothic
-George Seurat's A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Sunday_Afternoon_on_the_Isla...
All of these paintings were purchased for a tiny fraction of their current value (Hopper, $3,000; Seurat, $20,000).
https://ladykflo.com/a-sunday-on-la-grande-jatte-by-georges-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Institute_of_Chicago
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vBBOMLURSGA&ra=m
Wikipedia has a higher quality version of the painting, click the image in the article to see it.
Always had a great nostalgia for this image. Is it just me, or do other night owls find it soothing, quiet, and productive for deep thoughts? (Even if it's just thoughts about games.)
I wonder if public outrages distract more artists away from their art, or drive more to it as sanctuary or catharsis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKIbT-4UFaE
https://youtu.be/JWl6E3GZkdQ
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2636806/
Amazing work. He's one of my favorite artists. Nighthawks was there, great to see it in person.
It’s a great game, teaches kids how to recognize artworks and artists. Nighthawks was always one of my favorite pieces to own.
I had to go check with another browser to confirm the nasty behavior you described. Which does happen.