Industrial Revolution Definition
The Industrial Revolution was a period from the 18th to the 19th century where major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, and transport had a profound effect on the socioeconomic and cultural conditions starting in the United Kingdom, then subsequently spreading throughout Europe, North America, and eventually the world. The onset of the Industrial Revolution marked a major turning point in human history; almost every aspect of daily life was eventually influenced in some way.
The process of change involved the handicraft economy to an economy dominated by industry and machine based manifacture. Technical changes involved using iron and steel, new energy sources and the invention of new machines that increased productions. Industrialisation effected changes in economic, political and social organisation. This also included changes in distrabution of wealth and increaed international trade. Political changes that resulted from shifts in economic power- which included a rise in working class movements, Development of manergial hierachies and an emerge in new patterns of authority and an introduction to issues such as overcrouding and industrial polution.
Impression Sunrise 1873
Impression, soleil levant
Dated 1872, its subject is the harbour of Le Havre in France, using very loose brush strokes that suggest rather than delineate it. Monet explained the title later:
“Landscape is nothing but an impression, and an instantaneous one, hence this label that was given us, by the way because of me. I had sent a thing done in Le Havre, from my window, sun in the mist and a few masts of boats sticking up in the foreground....They asked me for a title for the catalogue, it couldn't really be taken for a view of Le Havre, and I said: 'Put Impression.'
I believe the realationship between both the painting and Industrialisation is the idea that both are created to be impressive. The painting was also part of the first impressionist exshibition and part of a movement where the fashion in painting was to paint the latest, trendiest and most elegant places, people and things in the painters scape.
Olafur Eliasson's 'Weather Project 2006
The similarities between 'Weather Project' and Monet's Impression sunrise is that both focus on the subject of weather. Weather's content in everyday convosation has been around for centuries. A sudden uproar of more subject on weather has arisen since the idea of the planets tempreture is arising. The themes that relate to these two significant art peices are the significant impact both have on our society and way of human life. I think the aims of these two artists are to observe the vastness of the surrounding environment and how 'impressive' they can be, wether on canvas or as a sun sculpture suspended in the tate.
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I agree with your view on how this particular movement relates to the piece; 'Impressionist Sunrise' by Claude Monet. Painted not long after the development of factories and the inustrial movement. Smoke and large factory chimneys are visible on the waters edge. The loose brush strokes show the intentional inaccuracy of the painting, it doesn't have to be entirely realistic or correct to understand the over inflation of the factories on the background.
ReplyDeleteWhat you have said about the relationship between 'weather project' and 'impressionist sunrise' is very accurate in my eyes. They both produce impressionistic works in their own different ways, wether it be a loosely painted image or a sculptured suspended sun, they both have their impressionist feelings.
ReplyDeleteI agree with how you have identified that both works relate to the weather, however it think it also important to say about the harbour in the back ground of the' impression' and the place where 'the weather project' is installed; The Tate Modern. Both of these things are factories and are big machine operated places. This can relate to the time of the industrial period because during this time factories and machines were being built and invented. you had a good explanation of the industrial period and it was very detailed well done. :)
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