Industrialisation and Art- week 7
Industrialisation and Art- week 7
It started in the mid-1700s in Great Britain when machinery began to replace manual labor and fossil fuels replaced wind, water, and wood primarily for the manufacture of textiles and the development of iron making processes. The full impact of the Industrial Revolution would not begin to be realized until about 100 years later in the 1800s when the use of machines to replace human labor spread throughout Europe, North America and the rest of the world. Not only did society develop the ability to have more things quicker, it would be able to develop better things.
Industrialism can be defined as an economic system built on large industries rather than on agriculture or craftsmanship.
Claude Monet, in painting his Impression Sunrise, of 1872, had broken free in shattered the art worked of the past. Laying ground for Modernism to take over. The art world changed forever, by this ability to capture the effects of air and light on a canvas. The artist Claude Monet, created works at a great time of change in the world around him. The industrial revolution was quickly changing the face of the world around him as quickly as the paint changing on the canvases of the Impressionists from the Realists in the Rubenesque schools that preceded him. As in Monet and his work, is as important to the changes in art made by any of the masters such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Vincent Van Gogh, or even Leonardo Da Vinci.For the first time, since the invention of the camera, painters were not responsible to depict only perfect realism as the subject of their work. Now with the invention of the modern paint tube and the train giving the ability to reach remote gorges, rural locations that Monet and the other masters of the time would capture in the new up and coming movement so aptly named Impressionism for its ability to create and impression.
The weather project was an installation filled the open space of the gallery's Turbine Hall. Eliasson used humidifiers to create a fine mist in the air via a mixture of sugar and water, as well as a semi-circular disc made up of hundreds of monochromatic lamps that radiated the single frequency yellow light. The ceiling of the hall was covered with a huge mirror, in which visitors could see themselves as tiny black shadows against a mass of orange light. Many visitors responded to this exhibition by lying on their backs and waving their hands and legs. The work reportedly attracted two million visitors; many of them were repeat customers.
The similarities between the two are the sun, light, ethereality, and the environment. Both Monet and Eliasson based their works on light, and the light of the sun. Also colour was another similarity. They both used that bright fiery orange colour of the sun. Both of their works also both had a heavenly, airy feel to them this was due to the use of mist in Eliasson’s work and a cloudy covering of paint in Monet’s work.
References:
http://www.ecology.com/archived-links/industrial-revolution/index.html
http://www.ezmuseum.com/monet1.htm
http://artwelove.com/artist/-id/849a8532
Hey Emma
ReplyDeleteThe brushwork in Monet's work is truly incredible, it really does seem to catch the elements of air and water directly onto the canvas, seemingly more realisitc then even a photograph. The use of colours in the featured artpiece esepcially seemingly make the sky on fire. It also seems to give life to the smog pouring out of the machines in the distance, as if the clouds were truly moving on the canvas.
I especially like the skillfully executed reflections painted onto the waters surface, with the black undetailed figure in the boat contrasting with it. Almost as if to say in this age of industrialisation, the individual worker does not matter, more the machine.
Hi Emma.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed looking at them both works Monet's painting 'Impression Sunrise'(1873) and Olafur Eliasson's 'Weather Project'(2006). One of their ideas behind both can be the same thing which in the light of the sun. However, they are interestingly shown the different characters of it. One thing is depicted on a canvas and another thing is in a big hall by installation.
My favorite one is Monet’s. The thing how he painted is eye-couching to me because his physical ability is very nice as showing the skills on a canvas. The water surface on his painting is absolutely gorgeous. The blue colour he used for it gave me a feeling of loneliness but also the orange colour raises me up like a sunset. It seems to be a hope in the period of the industrialisation. It must have helped people to reduce their heaps of works at that time.