Nighthawk

Nighthawk by Edward Hopper in 1942

This painting is one of the most famous American paintings. When I first looked the painting, I liked the painting's colors and spaces that attract viewers and deliver some messages, which I think isolation and captivity. The setting is at night in a city, but the city is empty, quiet, and lonely. The focus is on people who are in a cheap, simple restaurant because of manmade light in the restaurant. People in the restaurant do not look joyful but they seem like silent and some distances between them. A worker is standing behind a round table, which separates from the people.  Another building has several of square windows, which show no human but just black spaces. This painting is unique because it does not depict the bright, fanciful side of a city, but it shows the dark, mundane side of a city.