L.S Lowry
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DESCRIPTION ABOUT THE PAINTER
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HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXT
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DESCRIPTION ABOUT THE PAINTING
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By: Naiara Rodriguez
Noelia Garlo
Esther Torrecilla
Nuria Calle
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NAME: Laurence Stephen Lowry
BORN: 1 st 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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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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The most important technological innovations
The steam engine The spinning machine
“Spinning Jenny”
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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:
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Painting: LS Lowry
(the smoking chimneys and terraced housing) and
JMW Turner
(railways).
“Industrial Landscape” by LS Lowry
“Rail, Steam and Speed” by JMW Turner
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Novel : Charles Dickens (“Oliver Twist”, childlabour
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, The Old Curiosity Shop”, his feelings and
Hard Times”, proletarian class versus upper class)
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