1. The painting above is called Nighthawks. The artist who created this painting is Edward Hopper. Edward Hopper is from Nyack, New York The painting "Nighthawks" was made in 1942 ; the medium that was used to make the work was oil on canvas.

2. My first impression of this work of art was that it had a very calm theme; the street was very lonely and it had it had a cafe that wasn't crowded. The first I thing that I noticed in the painting was the empty street; I thought that since it was so early in the day that the streets would be crowded.

3. Edward Hopper was an artist in New York was a prominent American realist painter and print maker but he was most popularly known for his oil paintings. Edward Hopper said that Nighthawks was inspired by "a restaurant on New York's Greenwich Avenue where two streets meet." Although, the diner in which he modeled "Nighthawks" after is gone. The painting reveals three customers lost in their own private thoughts. Although, unknowingly he was painting the loneliness of a large city.

4. Edward Hopper uses various principles of design. First, he used contrast to capture the light and whiteness in the diner with the other colors in the painting. The white really stands out from the other colors, since it is so bright and the other colors are dark and dull it draws all of the attention. Hopper also exibits asymmetrical balance in his painting; there is no balance because on one side there is a diner and on the other is just an empty street. His painting also lacks symmetry because if you cut a line through the middle, nothing would be even on either side.