Industrialisation in the late 1800s, and today.

Industrial revolution started during the late 1700s, were mechanization was beginning to become huge in helping to manufacture things like textile and agriculture. The industrial revolution started in Great Britain and quickly spread across the world. During the industrial revolution, workers were coming to cities in search for employment in the new factories. There were no experienced workers because the industrial system was new so everyone had a good chance of finding employment.

The  City Rises by Umberto Boccioni is a painting about the construction of a new modern building. The colours in this painting are quite bright which really caught my eye and I like the balance between the detail in the building on the top right and the movement of the straining men in the bottom left. To me this painting celebrates urbanism.

Dynamism of a dog on a Leash by Giacomo Balla is a painting of a woman walking her dog. This painting shows a lot of movement with the multiple limps drawn, to show fast movement. I like how the background is plain because it makes me focus on the woman and her dog.

RMB City by Cao Fei shows the rapid urbanization  of China because of the clutter of the urban buildings. I think that Fei is concerned about the rate at which China is developing because there is a building on fire in the image and some strange objects around the buildings. Utopia means a imagined place where everything is perfect and dystopia is the complete opposite were the imagined place everything is unpleasant, this shows in her work because there are some lovely urban buildings but at the same time it’s crowded with strange objects around the island.

The paintings and the digital work are similar because they all show movement , in a way to celebrate machinery and urbanization.

  www.artspace.org.nz/exhibitions/2009/cafeintopia.asp

http://futuravanguardie.blogspot.co.nz

http://suite101.com/article/futurism-and-umberto-boccionis-the-city-rises-a280519

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/industrial-revolution.asp#axzz1w8Y5tKcF

Landscape And the Sublime

Enlightenment means to have or have received either spiritual or intellectual insight

The sublime is something that is beautiful, impressive, inspiring or breath taking.

During the 1700s artists used to imitate nature but in doing so, they would filter out any physical flaws and after filtering it was then seen as beautiful. The enlightenment artists and critics were beginning to demand more natural and real art. Artists were beginning to be enlightened and after that artists began to show more respect to nature and slowly started to use their imagination. Their art started to look more and more sublime.

Misrach often photographs dramatic sunsets and unspoilt landscapes (showing our planet’s beauty) but he also captures the negative impact people have on the environment. Misrach started his career with the epic series “Desert Candos” in which he was photographing the American Southwest. It included 18 related groups of pictures that show the relationship between nature and culture. He primarily shoots photos in the southwest when he isn’t traveling.

The High says, "Misrach’s work signals not just the environmental challenges facing the South but also the larger costs of our modern world at the dawn of the twenty first century."

Misrach shows different kinds of visions in his work but at the same time you just don’t know what vision he will show next. For example he might deliver beautiful colour in a landscape or find “stunning composition” in crowded seashore, or even a post-apocalyptic world.

battleground point-Richard Misrach 

The two images on the bottom are more of Misrach’s work    

untitled-Richard Misarch  

                                                                                                                 

This painting  is by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg, a artists from the enlightenment era.

This is work from  Jennifer Bartlett (a contemporary artist)  who works around the sublime.

This is an image of the sublime. Not one of Misarch’s works.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/enlightenment

http://openlearn.open.ac.uk

http://southphotography.blogspot.co.nz/2012/04/richard-misrach-photographs-in-american.html

http://www.pacemacgill.com/biography.php?artist=Richard%20Misrach