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Published: 2019-04-10 03:57:55 +0000 UTC; Views: 498; Favourites: 23; Downloads: 2
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Edward Hopper's "Nighthawks" painting gets ponified here.All models by and
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I'm always intrigued by remixes of this painting~ because, a central theme of the original painting (at least a generally accepted one) is urban isolation – the strangers in the original piece are strangers thrown together by chance, alone even in a city full of people, because of the time and the place and, implied, because of who they are. Even the man and woman, who could conceivably be there together, aren’t looking at each other. There’s a warmth to the painting but it’s the warmth of physical shelter, not of community. At least, not chosen community.
But if you look at the remixes many people create of "Nighthawks", many of them are specifically about community and intimacy, about creating a parody of already existing characters in a film or show who are instantly recognisable as being associated and connected with each other. We rarely see remixes of this painting where the sense of isolation is felt.
I’m not trying to criticize anyone for “getting it wrong” because I don’t believe they did – the whole point of a remix is to add new meaning, and I think you really did that with this piece. Anyway we could debate "Nighthawks" forever, because there is no one static meaning for art. The reason I point out the shift is that I think it shows our basic emotional yearning for connection in art– that we see Edward Hopper's spectacular painting and its haunting image of solitude among the masses, and we try to rebuild it in the image of a community.
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Interesting. I've seen other parodies of "Nighthawks" and figure of doing my own. In fact this was my third version of the painting and to be truthful, I never saw thought about the sense of isolation.
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The comic strip? I don't think I've seen that. Thanks for the fave.
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It's the cover of one of its books, "Nighthogs".
Also, you're welcome!
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I see. That painting has been parodied a lot.
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