1. Topic Summary - Aesthetics
Constable painted with a bright, clear atmosphere and straightforward realism capturing the countryside before the industrial revolution creating images that are aesthetically pleasing, with a nostalgic and wistful air to them. ... The Hay Wain is also significant because Constable does not show the civil unrest of the farming working class or the development of the industrial revolution. ... With its emphasis on the imagination and emotion, Romanticism emerged as a response to the disillusionment with the Enlightenment values of reason and order in the aftermath of the French Revolution of ...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate