THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL

Dedication: May 20, 1922 Sculptor: Daniel Chester French Architect: Henry Bacon

Lori A. Frieberg IN 609 - Final Presentation August 12, 1999

AESTHETIC ANALYSIS

Line Shape Form Space Texture Value Color

LINE

Horizontal Vertical Thick Heavy

SHAPE

Hard-Edged Rectangles Cylinders Squares Angular

FORM

Mechanical Regular Solid Strong Balanced Grand

SPACE

Foreground – Solid– Balanced– Vertical

Background– Solid– Grand

TEXTURE

Smooth Clean Hard Rough Shiny

VALUE

High contrast– Color– Lines

Vertical pattern– Top to bottom– Drawn to center

COLOR

Soft Cool Neutral

– Whites– Grays– Browns

HISTORICAL CONTEXT

1860 Abraham Lincoln elected president. 1863 January - Emancipation Proclamation

November - Gettysburg Address 1865 March - Second Inaugural Address

April - Lincoln’s assassination 1911 Lincoln Memorial established. 1915 Groundbreaking ceremony held. 1922 Lincoln Memorial Dedication.

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.

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 World’s Fair.

CRITICAL INTERPRETATION

Heavy Hard-Edged Strong Solid Rough Focused Neutral

CRITICAL INTERPRETATION

Others:– Site for many

Civil Rights gatherings.

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