PROFESSOR ELIZABETH J. WYKA
HST 1003
11/26/2014
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION Introduction:
Visiting The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, was one of the best and informative trip in my whole life. It contains more than 450,000 works of art from ancient Egyptian to contemporary, making it one of the most comprehensive and largest museums in the whole world. Industrial revolution was moreover influenced by the drawings and paintings of the artists. “Throughout history, artists have used art making as a tool to reflect, express, and explain their attitudes, feelings, or opinions about what was going on in society at the time” (mfa.org). The Industrial Revolution was a time in history that marked a series of “advancements …show more content…
(Industrial Revolution, the History Channel). Such shifts were a direct result of the introduction of new forms of energy generation such as coal burning, the steam engine, and waterpower. "Agriculture, the iron and textile industries, economic policy, and transportation were also impacted by the increase in technology and innovation of the Industrial Revolution. All of which had a direct effect on the social structures, labor, and wealth classes of the people at the time". (Montagne Joseph, Industrial Revolution).
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Claude Monet (14 November, 1840 - 5 December, 1926) was a French painter. Monet was doubtlessly the most important of all impressionists during the Industrial Revolution, and his Nympheas paintings represent the culmination of his career One of Monet's paintings Impression: Sunrise influenced the name for the new movement of Impressionism in the 1800's.
Monet's art was disliked in his early stages but them he made his imprint as the first Impressionist who was known not only in the United States but also in the whole …show more content…
Monet was so much devoted into his paintings, he would work on several canvas at the same time, each one catching the light of a particular time of the day so that every moment would get caught up into his canvases. Starting from a blank canvas, Monet had laid down thick big brush strokes of single color, horizontal and vertical to create dense massive footage. He has added more colors for the dramatic highlights to get dense paste of piled up paints. Up close, it's messy but after backing up, the colors resolve into a luminous scene; just pure reflected color. On working, he had moved with the sun from one canvas to the next. Around the hall, we could clearly see that pond turn from prescient darkness to clear morning light; to lavender laid afternoon; to glorious sunset sublimed in tranquil. "Monet exhibited forty-eight of these "landscapes of water", fascinated by the artist's subtle fusion of reality and reflection, critics compared the paintings to poetry and music".