Masterpiece Remakes

Recreation of Nighthawks

This photo was recreated for my IT 10 class, we were told to take a known famous painting and adjust 70% of the photo with our own additions.

American artist Edward Hopper created an oil painting called “Nighthawks.” A simple painting that shows people sitting within a diner somewhere in downtown during the night. After Edward got married with his wife, Josephine, they would carry journals around and either write down notes or sketch out a potential painting, the name “Nighthawks” was considered as the painting had men with noses that looked like sharp beaks, that would match one of a hawk. The painting would eventually be completed where it portrayed a late night diner with a couple of people, Josephine thought the name “Nighthawks” would be fitting for the painting’s setting. By early 1942, January 21, Edward Hopper completed one of his most well known paintings, Nighthawks.

My modifying intentions for this painting is to make certain things stand out more than others, but I eventually ran out of things to change and adding something in the streets in the back would prove to be rather difficult as the lighting that emits from the diner would be a challenge to work around.