Lecture 5 - Print Culture and Distrubution

Lecture 6

The age of print began in around 1450 with the invention of the printing press by Gutenberg. When Art schools where first opened they focused on 5 things predominantly, these where Painting, Sculpture, architecture, music and poetry, as you can see print wasn't included. The industrial revolution came to be during 1760 and 1840. The revolution brought machinery capable of replication, which helped mass produce images. This allowed people to re-create an image in different media forms. The industrial revolution was brought about for several reasons, the working class men and the higher class richer people had been segregated, for example the richer people would have larger house higher up from the factory's above the smoke of the city. The revolution changed the way the poor and the rich interacted, the richer people no longer set the culture.
   An artist named John Martin changed the way art was bought, instead of a single man buying the image, he put his art on display and charged an entrance fee, this let any man see the art work which was revolutionary for the time. Government funded schools began to pop up everywhere, these where made to create artwork demanded for governmental purposes. In fact our college was one, but a lot of the schools branched out and became more.  
   This lecture was very informative, I learnt a lot I didn't know about the history of print and the distribution of art. The history of the distribution was extremely engaging.