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.
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