A spivvy couple, a counter-boy in a white uniform, and a man sitting with his back to the window, the open crescent of his jacket pocket the darkest point on the canvas. No one is talking. No one is looking at anyone else. Is the diner a refuge for the isolated, a place of succour, or does it serve to illustrate the disconnection that proliferates in cities ? The painting's brilliance derives from it's instability, it's refusal to commit.
excerpt from
How Art Helped Me See the Beauty in Loneliness
Olivia Laing
The Guardian
2016
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Nighthawks
Edward Hopper
1942
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/feb/28/the-lonely-city-olivia-laing-edward-hopper-andy-warhol
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