Marxist art historian Francis Klingender argued that this painting was a "disguised response" to the Industrial Revolution and compared it to Francis Nicholson's 1821 lithograph Explosion and Fire at Shiffnal.
Marxist art historian Francis Klingender argued that this painting was a "disguised response" to the Industrial Revolution and compared it to Francis Nicholson's 1821 lithograph Explosion and Fire at Shiffnal. While painting it, the artist had a stroke. Robert Frank helped the Tate acquire its two companion paintings, one of which shows a throng of white spirits on a flowery hill above a mountain lake and is titled The Plains of Heaven. In this work's left foreground, two black-robed women watch aghast as a nude woman tumbles headfirst off a cliff. Elsewhere, the artist's trademark (*) lightning bolt strikes the ground next to a man with arms outstretched. Greek temples falling off a mountain, volcanic eruptions, and giant fucking boulders in the sky appear in, for 10 points, what depiction of Revelation 6, part of "Mad" John Martin's triptych of The Last Judgment?
Marxist art historian Francis Klingender argued that this painting was a "disguised response" to the Industrial Revolution and compared it to Francis Nicholson's 1821 lithograph Explosion and Fire at Shiffnal.
The Great Day of His Wrath [or The End of the World; prompt on The Last Judgment until it is mentioned]