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Just a random question. Which man would you rather be?

The Backstory:

Artist: Edward Hopper

Date: 1942

Medium: Oil on canvas

Edward Hopper recollected, “unconsciously, probably, I was painting the loneliness of a large city.”

"In an all-night diner, three customers sit at the counter opposite a server, each appear to be lost in thought and disengaged from one another. The composition is tightly organized and spare in details: there is no entrance to the establishment, no debris on the streets. Through harmonious geometric forms and the glow of the diner’s electric lighting, Hopper created a serene, beautiful, yet enigmatic scene. Although inspired by a restaurant Hopper had seen on Greenwich Avenue in New York, the painting is not a realistic transcription of an actual place. As viewers, we are left to wonder about the figures, their relationships, and this imagined world."

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/111628/nighthawks