The economic life in the Industrial Revolution and it`s design.

The industrial revolution started in England in the 1750`s. If we look back in those days, we can see that families were changing their life from an agricultural one to industrial economy. It was a difficult decision to change life but unfortunately they wanted to leave the countryside and settle in the towns.

How it was the life in an agricultural.

How it was the life in an industrial.

In this revolution, economic life changed to one with more machinery and pretty rushed lifestyle. With this process a lot of income was being made throughout the world. They created different machines such as for textile industries, iron making techniques and more trading.

An idea of some machinery.

Not only men and women go to work but even the children got to go to work. The working hours were from five in the morning till eight at night. It was harsh and cruel because children wanted to eat and drink as usual but they did not have much time because they only have 30 minutes break.

Children working in the factory.

Children at the factory.

If we take a look at the building in towns, we note that there were very miserable places and people were very poor. To see how they were poor, they had several families in each house and no bathrooms but only one toilet per street. Because of this fact, there were many diseases. Diseases did not come from the previous fact only but also from the pollution of the factories. 

The pollution of the factories.

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My learning, 2014. The digital academy learning available at : http://www.mylearning.org/everyday-life-in-the-industrial-revolution/p-2349/

How did the Industrial Revolution continued in Art

The Industrial Revolution continued in the last period of the 18^th Century in United States (1848), till the 19^th Century in 1907. This revolution started to spread in Europe, and after some time it reached out to North America and all around the world.

In 1848 a small group of young artists formed “the Pre-Raphaelites”. They went back to the art done before the Renaissance.

This painting is made from an artist named Sopie, that this girl is one of the Pre-Raphaelites group

The realism art began from a group of artists, writers and intellectuals in a Parisan bar in the late 1840`s till it continues on the 1850`s from France. Some important artists that gave birth to realism are Courbet, Bonheur, Millet, Manet, Degas etc... These artists created their own view of reality, for example Courbet painted the reality of life in the countryside.

This is a Realist painting by Gustave Courbet and it is made  in 1854

Later on in the 1860`s the British art processed to classical art till the late Victorian period. The famous artists in this period were Alma-Tadema, Leighton and Sargent.

The name of this painting is The Roses of Heliogabalus and ths is made by Lawrence Alma-Tadema in 1888

In the 1870`s some artists like Monet, Gustave, Caillebotte painted some landscapes with loose open brushstrokes and bright colours. These artists showed their sensations of light; this type of art is called Impressionism. Impressionism was not only an art style, but it was a name of a group of people who joined together to exhibit their work on Impressionism.

Ths painting is an example of what is Impressionism and this is made by Monet in 1872. This painting named  Impression, Sunrise.

In the 1880`s there were three different types of Art, which are; Post Impressionism, Symbolism and Art Nouveau.

Post Impressionism began in the late 1880s and it was consolidated by four artists together, that are Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne and Seurat. Van Gogh and Gauguin were truly best friends and they liked to paint together but these four artists were always focused in subjectivity.

This is an example of Post Impressionism. This painting named the boy in the red vest, made by Cezanne in  1890.

In the Symbolism and Art Nouveau period, artists turned away from modern life impressionism and worked more on their own dreams and imagination. They were thinking that the impressionism was very attached to materialism of the middle class culture. Symbolism was used by Van Gogh and Gauguin.

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Romanticism - the first Industrial Revolution

The first Industrial revolution began from the 1800 till 1848. Basically it began from the French revolution. This revolution brought many major changes in political life, from public and subjective experience. This changed from large characterizes the new style of romanticism. These romantic painters show their emotions and thoughts in their drawings such as, the first painting of David Gros. This painting was made in 1804 ,he went five years back in time,showing Napoleon  visiting a hospital to see his troops. As a composition David Gros is showing a sense of feeling, uses warm, sensual colours, extreme of dark and light parts, contrast and dramatic scene. He focuses on the dead and dying people.

When Napoleon visit his troops

 Another painting that is called the Raft of the Medusa is painted by Gericault. This is made in 1818 till 1819. Gericault`s painting is showing the frightening, confusion and it is well composed. The story of this painting is about 150 people in a raft trying to survive but unfortunately 15 only survived.

The famous shipwreck / Raft that Gericault made.

If you can see in these Paintings there are a combination of showing the same sense of feeling and also are drawn like a dramatic scene.

There are more artists that painted romanticism in this period such as Goya the romanticism of Spain, Turner the romanticism of England that shows a tragic, The German Caspar David Friedrich and then it continues in the United States from different artists.

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