Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Week 7 - Industrialisation and Art


1.Define the Industrial Revolution and Industrialism.
2.Research Monet's painting 'Impression Sunrise'(1873) to analyze the work in relation to Industrialisation.

'Impression Sunrise' (1873)


3.Olafur Eliasson's 'Weather Project'(2006) is a contemporary work that relates to Monet's
famous landscape.

Research the project to identitify the artist's intentions, as well as the site (space or venue) chosen for the project, to provide depth for your answer.

'Weather Project' (2006)
Olafur Eliasson

1 comment:

  1. Industrial Revolution can be 'defined as the application of power-driven machinery to manufacturing' (Rempel 2006, p.114).
    During this movement or era western Europe began to rapidly change the ways in which industrialization accelerated during the 18th century.

    In terms of Monet' "Impression Sunrise" his "painting provided the name that came to be used for the entire painting technique of Impressionism". During this period impressionist painters related their work to............

    "Subjects chosen for painting usually pertained to what the artist actually saw in his/her everyday life".

    "Paintings frequently depicted modern-day urban scenes, particularly of Paris and its environs".




    http://impressionist1877.tripod.com/

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