For those not familiar with him, Edward Hopper is famous for doing these paintings that are…I guess the word would be “lonely”, or “cold”, just using images of everyday life. “Dystopian” probably isn’t the right word, too far.
I think his best-known work is probably Nighthawks.
Nighthawks is a 1942 oil on canvas painting by the American artist Edward Hopper that portrays four people in a downtown diner late at night as viewed through the diner’s large glass window. The light coming from the diner illuminates a darkened and deserted urban streetscape.
The painting has been described as Hopper’s best-known work[1] and is one of the most recognizable paintings in American art.[2][3] Classified as part of the American Realism movement, within months of its completion, it was sold to the Art Institute of Chicago for $3,000 (equivalent to $57,730 in 2024).
I was playing around with the prompt phrase “by Edward Hopper” in some generative AI image stuff a while back on models that had been trained on it; they did a good job of producing the same desolate, cold, lonely feel.
For those not familiar with him, Edward Hopper is famous for doing these paintings that are…I guess the word would be “lonely”, or “cold”, just using images of everyday life. “Dystopian” probably isn’t the right word, too far.
I think his best-known work is probably Nighthawks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nighthawks_(Hopper)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Nighthawks_by_Edward_Hopper_1942.jpg
I was playing around with the prompt phrase “by Edward Hopper” in some generative AI image stuff a while back on models that had been trained on it; they did a good job of producing the same desolate, cold, lonely feel.