Hopper's Nighthawks: Look Through The Window

A super powerful painting, without any fancy tricks or smarty-pants pretensions.

"Alone, together"...the human condition.

Over 3 million subscribers since this video. Amazing

What’s the music playing in this video?

nighthawk is animated on wallpaper engine in steam

La fenêtre est l'œil regardant du bâtiment.

Your art videos are truly beautiful, deep, magical and ewokes so many emotions. Thank you!!

Watching this is in preparation for seeing it in person at the Art Institute. Very excited to view it in person. Thanks for the helpful analysis

What music is used in back ground??

It also shown in The Batman, which was produced during Covid, painting ever has been relevant

It is such an enjoyment to listen to your explanation, thank you.

So beautifully explained! Thank you! I love Art (I live for it). I love that Hopper refused the idea that NY was going to be bombed. I have been living through the pandemic with the same attitude as Hopper ... just focused on producing my work (Art), lovingly, and not getting hijacked by all the hoopla going on outside. What is real? The outside....? Or the inside? Which reality is more real? It's what we choose.
You did an outstanding job with your favourite Artist. Bravo! I love your take on this painting. I feel nourished!

oh man this was intense.

I love the feeling that this pieces of art evokes to me - it always felt "home", to me.

I absolutely loved this video. I really appreciated the more optimistic and hopeful reading of the painting's "story". I always felt this strange pull towards this painting that I never really understood. Every analysis of the painting that I've read tells me that its themes are lonlieness and sorrow, but I never felt that looking at it. I've always looked at this painting and felt... good.

Hearing your thoughts and knowing the context of the WWII era New York that (probably) inspired the darkened world outside the shining beacon of the diner helped me finally give a voice to this feeling. As an introvert who's happiest when I'm alone, I know now why I've always felt kinship with this painting. It shows me that even in isolation, there can be hope.

Hopper is truly an amazing artist. The casual, demure scenes of his works really resonate with our everyday lives. There is a genuine beauty in the silence of our lives

I remember a joke about this one where someone points out to Hooper that he forgot a door. And he just goes "Oh shit I did it again no!" And jumps out a window.

Thanks so much for this, I love this artist, thank you for introducing me!

Man this is bullshit. You and others are intellectualizing his artwork way too much instead of simply enjoying it. Its not as deep as you make it seem. he had a form of mental illness but was smart and his art are depictions of what he found beautiful in an otherwise dull existence. He drew a lot of windows because he was practically a hermit who spent a lot of time in his apartment and yearned for more but even when outside felt as tho he was STILL outside of a window looking in. He always felt separate from what he perceives reality to be. He wasn’t a part of the herd or to some extent life.

Thanks for this

I don't know why critics always seem to associate this painting with such negative words as alienation and loneliness. Any one who has been out late at night, after bars have closed, city utterly silent, with 99 percent of the population in bed, knows the wonderful peace of this time. What I see is a counterman, a veteran of the 3rd shift (because he is so pale) happily talking to the hawk-nosed patron who listens amiably, while his wife (or more like, girlfriend) sits, bored out of her skull, reading the text printed on a match book...

I recreated something like this last year as part of my showcase for artschool......I didn't get in 😐

After 11 years of hard work, you have reached over 3 mil subscribers. Guess you quit your day job a while ago?

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The dinner where Riddler is caught in The Batman reminds me of this one.

happy for a hundred thousand...now with 3 deserved M

Does anyone know the name of the background music song ?

This video is an art on itself.

Marvelous video and the tone and devotion of the narrator perfectly matches the subject. A lot of info. In a short space of time though so that I have to rewatch it several times. But it is enriching. Many thanks.

Fuck off man, this was so incredibly good I'm almost angry haha

Ah 2015, when 100k subscribers felt unreal. Thirty one times that by 2021? Unfathomable. Not to us tho. You've given us a steady stream of high-quality goods, sir. Thank you 🙏

I really miss your art interpretations in video essay form. Are you Nerstalgic as well? Same guy? Seems so

You are great. Keep on. Thank you deeply. Greetings from Greece.

Resembles disengaged people at restaurants looking at their phones nowadays. Society has definitely gone backwards.

Why explain the obvious 😊

Who's here from shameless 🙋‍♀️

I got this painting as a gift from a diner that is sadly closing before this year ends. The diner has been operating since 1940 but I’m grateful the owner gave me a piece of history to cherish and appreciate.

The beauty of this video essay, the painting Nighthawks itself, and the thoughts it inspires give me chills—even having watched this multiple times. Love it.

the two men with the hats look like the same person like the one with the woman
is a memory/reflection and the man on his own is the same one without her

Alone together in their lighted ship sailing against the darkness of all that was yet to come

Man, take love. Your videos are therapeutic. <3

I interpret nighthawks as an eye of the storm.the time in which this painting was finished only reinforces the way I feel. The post industrial city of Manhattan surrounds a small quiet diner, a nostalgic Americana. the smell of coffee and the taut leather of the counter stools contrasts the concrete and smoke of the city streets. The absence of a door reinforcing the lack of choice the patrons may have; to leave or to stay. The hurricane, being the steady march of routine life or the fear of war will inevitably continue in its own time. The situation might be out of your control but you’re here now. For hours or minutes or maybe the night, just enjoy the bitterness of the coffee, the stillness of your present.

Harry Bosch brought me here

The diner is like a beacon of light in midst of all the ambient darkness

“Just enough room to put your own life into hoppers work” genius. Hopper and the narrator

Well hell , let this late arrival opine.....I do not claim to know anything about deconstructing Art or Artists .....But I know what I like and before I ever knew who E. Hopper was , I loved his paintings ...his style , his subjects ....that's all I know

There is an essential lonliness in America that most people turn away from and deny but that Hopper penetrates and reveals.

I watch this video monthly, this keeps me sane thank you

I'm 16 and I suffer from borderline personality disorder and on a day to day basis I feel alienated, bored and extremely empty. Nothing visually sums up the way I feel as much as the paintings of Edward hopper.