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INDEX

DESCRIPTION ABOUT THE PAINTER

HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXT

DESCRIPTION ABOUT THE PAINTING

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By: Naiara Rodriguez Noelia Garlo Esther Torrecilla Nuria Calle

DESCRIPTION ABOUT THE PAINTERNAME: Laurence Stephen Lowry

BORN: 1st 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 2

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HISTORICAL CONTEXT (1) 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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HISTORICAL CONTEXT (2) The most important technological

innovations

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The steam engine The spinning machine

“Spinning Jenny”

CULTURAL CONTEXT (1) 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:

Painting: LS Lowry (the smoking chimneys and terraced housing) and JMW Turner (railways).

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“Industrial Landscape” by LS Lowry

CULTURAL CONTEXT (2) Novel : Charles Dickens (“Oliver Twist”, child-labour,

The Old Curiosity Shop”, his feelings and “Hard Times”, proletarian class versus upper class)

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