This iconic picture deserves a better frame.

@electrictroy2010

Жыл бұрын

Like what? It’s the frame Mr. Hopper installed himself when he sold it

They had this on Jeopardy so I had to look it up. WOW! If you stare long enough at this picture it will swallow you up into a different era. A great, Great, GREAT artist showed me this masterpiece, and I'm glad he did.

@jessislistless

2 жыл бұрын

Really?! I thought it was just me but it's so true. Something about Edward hoppers painting just engulfs me before I even realise it's happening

@merlinjones6485

2 жыл бұрын

@@jessislistless In a crowd we become insignificant and blend into the hive of noisy bees. But at four in the morning, here, with less than a handful of people, your importance is exaggerated. Ever word you say is listened to. Every thing you wear is a statement. It would be great to slip into this painting, to get away from our problems, just for a while, and try their aromatic coffee. I can smell it, and so can you if you try.

@electrictroy2010

Жыл бұрын

TCM has used this scene as a TV intro since the 1990s. They air it during the pre-dawn hours (2am to 5am) * Turner Classic Movies (US cable channel)

@cheaserceaser

Жыл бұрын

It was a bad era, raci's era. No Alphabet people, BLM.

Edward Hopper is clearly a national treasure and a true artist. The curator speaking is everything wrong with art today and exactly why we will never be allowed to have someone like Hopper ever again in America. Postmodernism murdered beauty.

@raystaar

Жыл бұрын

Would you mind expanding on your comment about the curator's remarks and their broader implications for the future of art in the U.S.? Thank you.

@electrictroy2010

Жыл бұрын

TCM has used this scene as a TV intro since the 1990s. They air it during the pre-dawn hours (2am to 5am) * Turner Classic Movies (US cable channel)

The painting pushes you back to the surface?? There's no sense of depth?! Is she crazy? The depth is what makss this painting so captivating, it draws you in. The everydayness of it?! I can't.

Great footage of Manhattan in the '30s -depicting scenes, even if far busier, from what could have been Hopper's world- and common-sense commentary from The AIC curator. If you can, go see this icon of American art of its time.

1:20 that door leads to the kitchen? I've always assumed this one part we see is actually just some sort bar section that's just apart of an even bigger diner we aren't shown

@royfr8136

3 жыл бұрын

kitchen

@EddJones25

2 жыл бұрын

you tend to only see those sort of small windows on doors to a kitchen, not doors for the public to use

I am always struck by the enormous size of the piece of glass in the foreground. It would be difficult for such a huge piece of glass to be installed, Yet the viewer looks at it and it seems perfectly normal. And the glass is curved!! It may be quite possible, but I don't think it is very easy to do.

@ravenswood118

2 жыл бұрын

Larger pieces of glass have been installed.

@electrictroy2010

Жыл бұрын

Except this is 1940 when making that large a piece of glass was never done

I always thought the painting conveyed urban tranquility, too often an oxymoron.

Where are the ashtrays? 🤔

Always found Hopper to be relativistic. Doesn't matter how close or far away you get, he's always *just* out of reach. One step removed. Accessible but never attainable. Comes through in everything he did and said.

That frame though.. you can't not see it, it's gaudy. Raping the eye, in a sense.

No door. Diner Hell? Is this inspiration for the many strangely-empty bars & diners in films? Real-life, they'd be out of business from lack of business.

@verhu010

4 жыл бұрын

The door couldn't be out of view to the right? Also many places stay in business because of very busy periods during breakfast/lunch/dinner and stay open late despite small crowds.

@lazur1

4 жыл бұрын

@@verhu010 The door _could_ be out of sight, but if so, it's _purposely_ out of sight. This painting itself could fit your 'busy times', hypothesis, but the similar scenes in films have occurred at all times of day.

@electrictroy2010

Жыл бұрын

TCM has used this scene as a TV intro since the 1990s. They air it during the pre-dawn hours (2am to 5am) * Turner Classic Movies (US cable channel)

WOUAW QUESQUE C'EST QUE CE TRUC LA ?

What about: these people are dead , the diner is some kind of purgatory and the skull like figure in white is the angel of death running the show from behind the counter. The narrow yellow door is the door out, they are all waiting on a decision about what happens next

Sorry to be a pedant but you said “the heavy duty porcelain mugs.” You obviously meant “pottery mugs”. Porcelain is the finest, most wonderful, most fragile of the clays.

The lady who describes Nighthawks...is overtop in her "personal" assessment of what is going on...no door? Pretty easy to know that the door, unseen, would be to the right and the rest of her comments...not good.