Natural Landscape :: Poetry, Painting

The Industrial novelty raised concerns about the natural adorn when broad social and economic changes also generated change magnitude contamination across England. Around the same time, ideas of naturalism (from French Philosophical writings) swept across Europe. They persuaded people to go back to natures unsubdivided ways. En lightsomeenment theories of Reason disseminated ideas of nature as teacher and guide. However, landscape moving picture in England was unimportant at that time, compared to Portraiture or History Painting (Gardner 2009, pp 793). A passion for landscape art was advanced by the developments in road and rail infrastructure due to rapid industrialization. New thoughts on the Subjective associations of landscape painting with spirituality, Morals and Philosophy were inspired by Romantic poetry. 19th century Poetry epitomized sublime forces and mystical kinship with nature (Gardner 2009, pp 793). Landscape painting soon emerged, becoming a medium for a full r ange of conscious and subconscious emotions it entered the realm of sublime and symbolic expressionThe Industrial Revolution which began in the middle of the 17th century brought vast social and economic change to the demographic landscape of Great Britain. This phenomenon later spread to the U.S. and Europe, affecting alike(p) changes to (their) social and economic conditions (Wyatt 2009). The English landscape was the scene of rapid physical transformation. Spinning mills loomed where once there was an unspoiled country side. The swift elaborateness of steel and mining industries turned night 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.Figure 1 is a representation of an Industrial landscape at night. The strange glow of a coal furnace is contrasted against the natural light of the moon. The picture embraces an honest depiction of present condition s. Its dystopian context is symbolized by the contrast between a man-made industrial hell and natural landscape. The musical 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 relate to the subjective impressions found in landscape painting.The subjective association of landscape with aroused meaning evolved when new sensitivity to the world of nature inspired poets and writers. The pure force of natures metaphor compounded with poetic and prosaic imagery. genius of Wordsworths first Romantic poems regrets the loss of mans spiritual union with nature.