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INDUSTRIAL LANDSCAPEL.S Lowry
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INDEX
DESCRIPTION ABOUT THE PAINTER
HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXT
DESCRIPTION ABOUT THE PAINTING
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By: Naiara Rodriguez
Noelia Garlo
Esther Torrecilla
Nuria Calle
DESCRIPTION ABOUT THE PAINTER
NAME: Laurence Stephen Lowry
BORN: 1st November 1887 Manchester, England
DIED: 23 February 1976 (aged 88)
FIELD: Painting
TRAINING: Manchester Municipal College and Salford Technical College
WORKS: Going to the Match (1928), Coming from the Mill (1930), Industrial Landscape (1955), Portrait of Ann (1957)
AWARDS: Freedom of the City of Salford, Honorary Master of Arts, and Honorary Doctor of Letters
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HISTORICAL CONTEXT (1)
Migration from the countryside to the city. Population growth Improvement of
nutrition, hygiene, medicine. Growing demand of products. Improvement of transport Railway
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HISTORICAL CONTEXT (2)
The most important technological innovations
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The steam engine The spinning machine
“Spinning Jenny”
CULTURAL CONTEXT (1)
Most artists preferred turning their backs on to the darkness, child-labour, poverty and disease scenary typical of the Industrial Revolution. On the other hand:
Painting: LS Lowry (the smoking chimneys and terraced
housing) and JMW Turner (railways).
7“Rail, Steam and Speed” by JMW Turner
“Industrial Landscape” by LS Lowry
CULTURAL CONTEXT (2)
Novel : Charles Dickens (“Oliver Twist”, child-labour, The Old Curiosity Shop”, his feelings and “Hard Times”, proletarian class versus upper class)
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