THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL

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THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL

• Dedication May 20, 1922
• Sculptor Daniel Chester French
• Architect Henry Bacon
• Lori A. Frieberg
• IN 609 - Final Presentation
• August 12, 1999

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AESTHETIC ANALYSIS

• Line
• Shape
• Form
• Space
• Texture
• Value
• Color

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LINE

• Horizontal
• Vertical
• Thick
• Heavy

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SHAPE

• Hard-Edged
• Rectangles
• Cylinders
• Squares
• Angular

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FORM

• Mechanical
• Regular
• Solid
• Strong
• Balanced
• Grand

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SPACE

• Foreground
• Solid
• Balanced
• Vertical
• Background
• Solid
• Grand

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TEXTURE

• Smooth
• Clean
• Hard
• Rough
• Shiny

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VALUE

• High contrast
• Color
• Lines
• Vertical pattern
• Top to bottom
• Drawn to center

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COLOR

• Soft
• Cool
• Neutral
• Whites
• Grays
• Browns

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HISTORICAL CONTEXT

• 1860 Abraham Lincoln elected president.
• 1863 January - Emancipation Proclamation
  November - Gettysburg Address
• 1865 March - Second Inaugural Address April
  - Lincolns assassination
• 1911 Lincoln Memorial established.
• 1915 Groundbreaking ceremony held.
• 1922 Lincoln Memorial Dedication.

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BIOGRAPHICAL CONTEXT

• ARCHITECT
• Henry Bacon
• Studied in Europe.
• Admired the temples of ancient Greece.
• Submitted drawings to the Memorial Commission in
  1912.
• Final approval given in 1913.

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BIOGRAPHICAL CONTEXT

• SCULPTOR
• Daniel Chester French
• Self-taught artist.
• Sculpted people and animals out of clay as a
  child.
• Previously worked with Bacon on the Chicago
  Worlds Fair.

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CRITICAL INTERPRETATION

• Heavy
• Hard-Edged
• Strong
• Solid
• Rough
• Focused
• Neutral

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CRITICAL INTERPRETATION

• Others
• Site for many Civil Rights gatherings.

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EDUCATIONAL INTERPRETATION

• Standards of Learning
• History and Social Science 2.4, 2.9
• Mathematics 2.15, 2.18, 2.20
• Science 2.1, 2.6, 2.7
• English 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8,
  2.9, 2.10, 2.11
• Other
• THE ARTS Music, Dance, Theatre, Visual

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