The Honeybee Diner – Nighthawks by Edward Hopper
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I want to preface this article with a disclaimer, this series of articles has focused on the NPC references of Wizard101. However this location and quest instance was TOO good to pass up as an article.
The Honeybee Diner is in Doctor Prune territory. It is owned and operated by Bumbles, a former boss in the Heap. Doctor Prune is interrogating Bumbles. It is up to your wizard to help Dog Tracy by defeating Doctor Prune and bring both the Doctor and Bumbles to the precinct.
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 and is one of the most recognizable paintings in American art. 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.
It has been suggested that Hopper was inspired by a short story of Ernest Hemingway’s, either “The Killers” (1927), which Hopper greatly admired, or the more philosophical “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” (1933). In response to a query on loneliness and emptiness in the painting, Hopper outlined that he “didn’t see it as particularly lonely”. He said, “Unconsciously, probably, I was painting the loneliness of a large city.”
KingsIsle and the development team join a long list of other artists inspired by Nighthawks. Nighthawks has been widely referenced and parodied. Versions of it have appeared on posters, T-shirts and greeting cards as well as in comic books and advertisements and television shows like The Simpsons. Typically, these parodies—like Helnwein’s Boulevard of Broken Dreams, which became a popular poster—retain the diner and highly recognizable diagonal composition, but replace the patrons and attendant with other characters: animals, Santa Claus and his reindeer, or the respective casts of The Adventures of Tintin or Peanuts.
In 1984, Gottfried Helnwein reworked Edward Hopper’s famous painting ‘Nighthawks’ at the Diner and replaced the unknown people with stars – Elvis Presley, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, and Humphrey Bogart. It has become almost as famous as Hopper’s original.
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The Honeybee Diner image is from Wizard101, and is (c) KingsIsle Entertainment, it is being used in a way that qualifies as fair use under US copyright law.
Nighthawks is borrowed from Wikipedia it is in the public domain
The Simpsons still is copyright The Walt Disney Company and Matt Groening. It is fair use.
Boulevard of Broken Dreams is borrowed from helwein.com It is fair use.
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