Edward Hooper and the House by the Railroad

seeing 1.

In House by the Railroad I feel that an artist Edward Hooper concentrates our attention on the lonely and all by itself house in the middle of nowhere. The house is surrounded by nothing, just empty blueish sky and hardly green but mostly yellow grass. And the funny part about it is that the color the house is painted in exactly the same as the sky, and its roof exactly the same as the railroad. 

Looking at the picture you feel loneliness and solitude that the life of the house is going through each and every day. There is nobody around, not a bird flying around, not a flower blooming. It is almost disgustedly calm and quiet. 

The structure of the house is very simple, sharp corners and even columns holding the front of it are almost under the pressure of doing its hard job. We can suggest that the body of the house is the skeleton or the skin.

As well I notice that the work was created in 1925, during the Great Depression where everything was dead and slowly on the way to coming back to life. The House by the Railroad captured here is right on the pick of that depression, showing to the world the catastrophe of humans. So that we might suggest the house is the epiphany to the whole nation during that period. Hungry, lonely, hopeless...  The railroad that is going right next to the house is the sign that like trains move through railroads to its destinations, the live of humans will be moving in any (right or wrong) direction, no matter what, passing the Great Depression. 

Or we might suggest that the house is the author - Edward Hopper - himself. As we read form his bio, he met his wife only in his forties, so after he did this painting. His life before was different, lonely and pointless, from what it turned into after he met Josephine. It is appeared his train reached his final destination, so I hope the House by the Railroad would be.