Monday, June 14, 2010

Claude Monet


Industrial Revolution can be defined as the period between the 18th and 19th century where the progress in the fields of agriculture, manufacturing, mining, and transport had a big effect on social economic and cultural conditions through machine based manfacturing in Europe. Industralism was the continuous spread of Industrial Revolution all over the world in the 19th century.


2. Research Monet's painting 'Impression Sunrise' (1873) to analyze the work in relation to Industrialisation.


In the 18th-19th century an artist by the name of Claude Monet and other painters developed a new method of painting known as Impressionism by contemporaries. Monet's painting 'Impression Sunrise' (1873) is a great example of this particular painting technique. By using fluttery brush strokes to blur images and quick distinctive brush strokes with the smart use of light makes the sunrise more alive and brings the painting to life. The industrial revolution and impressionist painting era begun around the same time in the 18th-19th century and both had positive effects on society where the science of both era's progressed society economically and culturally.


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


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


Olafur Eliasson is another artist who explores the themes of light spectrum to bring his works to life. Olafur's work the 'weather project', this work is located London's tate modern, this piece uses a humidifiers to create a fine mist, aswell as a semi circular disk made of hundreds of monochromatic lamos, which illuminate frequencies of yellow light. Unlike Monet's landscape paintings Eliasson's work covers a large area (turbine hall) but like Monet's landscape paintings the use of light and mist visually gives the works depth in bring the works to life by using unique and new methods of creating art. Eliasson's key intention was to make the visitors the subject of the work bringing to work to life, while looking up into the mirror on the ceiling there reflections were blurred due to the colored mist from the humidifiers. The half gave the hall depth and prespective.


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