Edward Hopper created the beautiful painting titled Nighthawks. It is made from oil on canvas. He created the painting in 1942 and he was inspired to create it because of a restaurant on New York’s Greenwich Avenue. Fluorescent light came into use in the early 1940’s. Nighthawks is a painting showing four people in a restaurant late at night. The lines in the painting are mostly straight with a few curves. The lines are mostly straight to make the buildings more structured. The shapes are rectangles like the windows, the road, and the buildings. The street is empty because of the time of day. The colors really make the painting stand out. The buildings are green and red. Green and red are complementary colors, which make the painting stand
