Miles Davis, Blue in Green from the LP ‘Kind of Blue’ (1959)
Edward Hopper’s realist painting Nighthawks gives the viewer a look inside 1940s American urban culture from the outside. According to the artist, the diner in Nighthawks is based off a real restaurant in Hopper’s New York Greenwich Village neighborhood at an intersection “where two streets meet.” In stark contrast with the dark streets outside, the harsh florescent light illuminating the inside of the diner just became popular in the early 1940s, when Nighthawks was painted. In fact, diner culture itself did not take off until the late 1920s in the US, allowing night owls and insomniacs like the characters in Hopper’s painting a place to relax and chat, escaping the drudgery of daily life.
In addition to his familiar cast of characters, Edward Hopper sets the stage for a classic film noir scene. Streetlights, nighttime settings, dark street fronts, after hours city diners…
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