ROMANTIC VS CLASSICAL Essay -- Essays Papers

ROMANTIC VS CLASSICALIn the 18th century, there was a tip that we called Neo classicism. In this period most of all paintings had the same feature film which are dark and simple background colors, very masculine, stressed heroism, frieze, subtle edges, more geometric and flat. As we seen in Jean Ingres paintingThe jokers Slave, we could see from the simple background and the very subtle edges of her body. Comparing to the classical period, one of the wall paintings that I found around the campus. I decided to use the mural designed by Grant timber which title is Breaking the Prairie Sod to be one pillow slip which attain the same characteristic with the classical period even though it had varicolored in the 19th century. This mural is locate at the main history east lobby of Parks Library. procedureually this mural depicts the breaking of Iowas sodding(a) soil in the early 1840s with a woman standing beside a man who is drinking out of a jug while his surpass rests on t he handle of a wooden plow. There are salient cloud formations behind them and a view across the field and prairie. And this mural symbolized a lot of things that I never thought before for example the man in the picture, presented in youth, middle age and maturity, represents Abraham Lincoln, who signed the Morrill Act that founded land-grant educational institutions of which Iowa State is one. Lincolns presence also sends a strong heart and soul to students who view the mural, that with hard work, dedication, honesty and ed...