How might a real estate agent write an ad for this house.  What are its strong features?  How could its location be described positively?
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Picturing America, House by the Railroad, 1925
House by the Railroad, 1925 by Edward Hopper  located next to the video screen.  "The sunlight illuminating House by the Railroad is bright enough to cast deep shadows on the stately Victorian mansion, but not to chase away an air of sadness.  The painting expresses Edward Hopper's central theme: alienation of modern life.  Instead of happy, anecdotal pictures celebrating the energy and prosperity of the Roaring Twenties.  Hopper portrayed modern life with unsentimental scenes of either physical or psychological isolation...House by the Railroad  is symbolic of the loss that is felt when modern progress leaves an agrarian society behind.  
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