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Industrial Revolution Art Observation Essay

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INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION ART EXHIBIT
The art shown in this exhibit is a very accurate representation of the Industrial revolution with many of the pieces representing a new era of innovation. Industrialization improved transportation, created a national economy, and trade! Along with this amazing revolution came the factory system which took advantage of new technology and machines to produce high-quality products faster than ever! All of this and more is shown in the images below! The first entry to the exhibit ( Image A) is a perfect example some of ways new technologies helped make things easier. It is a beautiful piece which fully captures the advantages of electronic communication, transport by train, and how much more efficient everything was after this inventions.

Another piece that I would like to call to your attention is the 10th addition to the exhibit (Image J). This image shows a coal mine so clean it almost looks habitable! Although this may be an artistic exaggeration it still shows how …show more content…

I know that most people’s first reaction to this piece is that there is no way this image showing child labor could possibly promote industrialization but what you have to realize is that even though the image is correct to show this as an issue that happened during the same time it was in almost no way caused by it. The only negative effect the industrial revolution could have had on child labor might have been an increased demand for workers, but these weren’t necessarily children. It also helped many people struggling to get by, by providing easy jobs. Even though there might have still been some children in the mines it was actually the industrial revolution that created the law that children couldn’t work until the age of 12 and made mines safer for the younger workers still involved. My point is that even if it looks bad, it isn’t being compared to how it used to

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