Nighthawks

Hopper, inside out.

Nighthawks is probably Hopper's most well known painting or most commonly viewed painting. I always wondered what it would feel like to be one of the characters in his paintings; to be surrounded by space, shadow, solitude. I think the draw of a Hopper painting is not in the characters but rather in the space between the characters, pregnant with potential, serving as a metaphor for the unspoken words, the inner thoughts and the dark secrets that we carry within us.