The French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution were periods of change and frequent adaptation in European History. Coinciding with the Industrial Revolution and in response to the French Revolution was a time of Romanticism in Europe. This liberalism art movement focused on the beauty of nature and emotion, and many believe that the movement, through painting and writing, described the founders of the changes love for the French Revolution and hatred of the Industrial Revolution.
Artists in the Romantic era focused on the return to nature's primitive times, and the essence of its beauty. They connected with the power and ferocity of nature while remembering the rural life that had been forgotten in the formation of factories and city life in the Revolution of the time period. Landscape paintings like Freidrich's Wandering above the Sea of Fog and Hay Wain by John Constable allowed viewers to return to how things used to be, and view nature as a force of good but also powerful. The French …show more content…
Key figures like William Wordsworth wrote works like Lyrical Ballads and Daffodils on the danger of polluting the beauty of nature and returning to a rural life that the industrial revolution had set aside. Novelists like Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein to describe how the upsetting of nature's balance in life and death could lead to personal destruction and danger. These ideas emphasized individuality, respect of nature, and the feeling of a "personal connection" to culture and art that was rejected in the era of working a mindless and monotonous job. In summation, one could even refer this time period to the true revolution that occurred during the Renaissance in Italy, where artists worked to get back to the "basics", what they had learned in Greek/Roman times, and focus on the human being
Artists in the Romantic era focused on the return to nature's primitive times, and the essence of its beauty. They connected with the power and ferocity of nature while remembering the rural life that had been forgotten in the formation of factories and city life in the Revolution of the time period. Landscape paintings like Freidrich's Wandering above the Sea of Fog and Hay Wain by John Constable allowed viewers to return to how things used to be, and view nature as a force of good but also powerful. The French …show more content…
Key figures like William Wordsworth wrote works like Lyrical Ballads and Daffodils on the danger of polluting the beauty of nature and returning to a rural life that the industrial revolution had set aside. Novelists like Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein to describe how the upsetting of nature's balance in life and death could lead to personal destruction and danger. These ideas emphasized individuality, respect of nature, and the feeling of a "personal connection" to culture and art that was rejected in the era of working a mindless and monotonous job. In summation, one could even refer this time period to the true revolution that occurred during the Renaissance in Italy, where artists worked to get back to the "basics", what they had learned in Greek/Roman times, and focus on the human being