Natural Landscape :: Poetry, Painting

The industrial Revolution raised concerns about the indwelling ornament when broad social and sparing changes also generated increasing taint across England. Around the same time, ideas of pictorialism (from French Philosophical writings) move across Europe. They persuaded people to go back to natures artless ways. Enlightenment theories of Reason disseminated ideas of nature as teacher and guide. However, ornament moving picture in England was unimportant at that time, compared to Portraiture or History mental picture (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 one C Poetry epitomized high-sounding forces and mystical family relationship with nature (Gardner 2009, pp 793). Landscape painting soon emerged, becoming a stren gth for a full range of conscious and subconscious emotions it entered the realm of sublime and symbolic expressionThe Industrial Revolution which began in the middle of the seventeenth 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 similar changes to (their) social and economic conditions (Wyatt 2009). The English landscape was the scene of rapid physical transformation. Spinning mill loomed where once there was an unspoiled country side. The swift expansion of marque and mining industries turned night into day. Days were turned into smog change panoramas of gloom. An increase in wealth also brought with it physical problems caused by taint 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 pr esent conditions. Its dystopian circumstance is symbolized by the contrast between a man-made industrial nuthouse and natural landscape. The genre of landscape painting in England during the 18th century was not given as much importance as portraying painting or historical 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 emotional meaning evolved when new esthesia to the world of nature inspired poets and writers. The pure force of natures metaphor compounded with poetic and prosaic imagery. One of Wordsworths commencement Romantic poems regrets the loss of mans spiritual union with nature.