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| Nighthawks (1942) oil on canvas painting by Edward Hopper inspired by a Greenwich Village late night cafe |
It's Noirsville, a visually oriented blog celebrating the vast and varied sources of inspiration, all of the resulting output, and all of the creative reflections back, of a particular style/tool of film making used in certain film/plot sequences or for a films entirety that conveyed claustrophobia, alienation, obsession, and events spiraling out of control, that came to fruition in the roughly the period of the last two and a half decades of B&W film.
Monday, February 1, 2016
Noirsville Iconic Artwork of the Week
Inaugurating a new feature today, Iconic Artworks that you could say either inspired, influenced, or continue the Film Noir and Neo Noir aesthetics. Artists such as Edward Hopper (1882 – 1967), and those of the Ashcan School, Robert Henri (1865–1929), George Luks (1867–1933), William Glackens (1870–1938), John Sloan (1871–1951), and Everett Shinn (1876–1953), and Photographers (Weegee) Arthur Fellig (1899 –1968), Brassaï (pseudonym of Gyula Halász (1899 – 1984), Diane Arbus (1923 – 1971) and Susan Meiselas (born 1948).
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