Dialogue by Mark:

Check out the two-point perspective from today's Great Artist in the KidsArt Art History Corner. This painting is called "New York, New Haven and Hartford" - the name of the railroad tracks that fill the foreground of the picture.

Edward Hopper was an American artist who lived in New Your City, but spent the summers and all the other time he could along the New England seacoast in Cape Cod and Maine.

Hopper loved to paint New England scenes of boats and the ocean and "lonely" old houses. He s best know for the way he showed sunlight in his pictures...the way light falls on things and changes their colors. Look at the colosr in these buildings. The farmhouse roof is red in the sunlight, but dark brown in the shadows. One side of the house is yellow, while in the shade it's grey. Even the bushes by the railroad tracks are touched with bright yellow where the rays of sun hit them.

Hopper's paintings often feel lonely. He always makes us feel separated from the subject of the painting, whether we're looking through a window or standing on the other side of the railroad tracks.