Characteristics Of The Industrial Revolution

The world in 1913 had rapidly globalized over a period of 30 years, this period known as the Industrial Revolution, which created a new revolution of positive change. It is evident that prime era of change for the working class and industrial development was during the Industrial Revolution, a revolution that brought positive change in Europe and America from the 1860s – 1970s. Many people moved to cities to work on the creation of new inventions and machinery. The Industrial Revolution also brought new paintings and sculpture, industrial design, typography, literature and music. This exciting change also exposed the art world to an innovative creation of Modernism. Modernism refers to a practice or doctrine that is characteristic of the present time. Many artists in this period rebelled the social and artistic codes of painting and created their own movements within Modernism. An example of an artist who did this was Dutch painter Piet Mondrian (1872 – 1944) who partially shaped the movement of De Stijl. Dutch for ‘The Style’. The De Stijl Movement refers to the harmony and order in paintings that was achieved by the reduction of elements to pure primary colours and geometric forms. Founded by Dutch Painter, Theo Van Doesburg in 1917 and ended in 1931, De Stijl was an Art Movement that enveloped Neoplasticism and German Design of Bauhaus. The perfect straight line motif and bold primary colours were all common components to De Stijl artworks. Mondrian’s two paintings