The most far-reaching, influential transformation of human culture since the advent of agriculture eight or ten thousand years ago, was the industrial revolution of eighteenth century Europe. This revolution would change consumption, family structure, social structure. This revolution involved more than technology. However, the industrial revolution was more than technology—impressive as this technology was. What drove the industrial revolution were profound social changes, as Europe moved from a primarily agricultural and rural economy to a capitalist and urban economy. In 1750, the European economy was overwhelmingly an agricultural economy. The land was owned by wealthy aristocratic landowners ; they leased the land to tenant farmers who paid for the land in real goods that they grew or produced. Most non-agricultural goods were produced by individual families that specialized in one set of skills: wagon-wheel manufacture, for instance.
The European economy, though, had become a global economy. In our efforts to try to explain why the Industrial Revolution took place, the globalization of the European economy is a compelling explanation. European goods in part drove the conversion to an industrial, manufacturing economy World trade was about making Europeans wealthy, not about enriching the colonies or non-Western countries.
2. Research Monet's painting 'Impression Sunrise'(1873) to analyze the work in relation to Industrialization.
'Impression Sunrise' is a painting by Claude Monet.
Dated 1872, but probably created in 1873 its subject is the harbor of Le Havre in France, using very loose brush strokes that suggest rather than delineate it. Monet explained the title later: It was displayed in 1874 during the first independent art show of the Impressionists (who were not yet known by that name).
Monet painted the sun as having almost exactly the same luminance
as that of the sky, a condition which suggests high humidity and atmospheric attenuation of light. The sun is nearly the same luminance as the grayish clouds .The orange color against the gray and the vibrant force of the sun against its motionless surroundings. Notice how the sun nearly disappears if you remove the color .This detail relies on the use of complementary colors and variety of color temperature, rather than changes in color intensity or contrast of values, to differentiate the sun from the surrounding sky.
3. Olafur Eliasson's 'Weather Project'(2006) is a contemporary work that relates to Monet's famous landscape.
Olafur Eliasson and Monet are using similar colors . Eliasson mimicked the sun and created a late afternoon scene, like Monet. He used orange, yellow, grey and black, to create the feeling of warmth.
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