Natural Landscape :: Poetry, Painting

The industrial Revolution raised concerns about the natural embellish when broad companionable and economic changes also generated increasing pollution across England. Around the like time, ideas of naturalism (from French Philosophical writings) swept across Europe. They persuaded people to go back to natures simple ways. Enlightenment theories of Reason disseminated ideas of nature as teacher and guide. However, adorn picture in England was unimportant at that time, compared to Portraiture or History Painting (Gardner 2009, pp 793). A passion for beautify art was advanced by the developments in road and rail basis due to rapid industrialization. New thoughts on the Subjective associations of landscape create with spirituality, Morals and Philosophy were inspired by Romantic poetry. 19th cytosine Poetry epitomized sublime forces and mystical kinship with nature (Gardner 2009, pp 793). Landscape painting soon emerged, becoming a medium for a full cast of conscious and sub conscious emotions it entered the realm of sublime and symbolic expressionThe industrial Revolution which began in the middle of the 17th century brought vast brotherly and economic change to the demographic landscape of Great Britain. This phenomenon later turn out to the U.S. and Europe, affecting similar changes to (their) social and economic conditions (Wyatt 2009). The English landscape was the snap of rapid physical transformation. Spinning mills loomed where once there was an honorable country side. The swift expansion of steel and mining industries turned darkness into day. Days were turned into smog filled panoramas of gloom. An increase in wealth also brought with it physical problems caused by pollution and unhealthy working conditions. condition 1 is a representation of an Industrial landscape at night. The unnamed glow of a coal furnace is contrasted against the natural light of the moon. The picture embraces an echt depiction of present conditions. Its dystopian context is symbolized by the contrast amongst a man-made industrial hell and natural landscape. The genre of landscape painting in England during the 18th century was not given as much importance as portrait painting or historic illustration. This hierarchy of genres (Langdon 2007) lost importance during the industrial revolution when people began to repair to the subjective impressions found in landscape painting.The subjective association of landscape with emotional meaning evolved when new sensitivity to the world of nature inspired poets and writers. The pure force of natures metaphor compounded with poetical and prosaic imagery. One of Wordsworths first Romantic poems regrets the red ink of mans spiritual union with nature.