The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1911-09-28
Scenes and Designs
From Ancient Period
to Decorate
1T IS REsPLENDENT
Corn Palace Dressed in It's
New Clothes Exceeds
all Other Years

From Mondays Republican.
Vastly superior in design rich in
decoration and strillingly brilliant in
lcolor is The Mitchell corn palace,
which was opened Monday for the
Ilthirteenth year OF it's existence, and
lit is the comment OF all who have
seen the various buildings that the
one OF 1871 far surpasses anything
OF previous yeas.
The decoration of the south and
west sides OF the grca, building has
always bee, one OF the strong fea-
lures of the yearly palace, and it
emphasizes the fact that corn is the
product OF the state, and which is uti-
nence to the fact. The decorations
! this year are entirely OF an Egyptian
character and the designs tell the
story OF iii" work OF ART in the most
ancient period, the decorator max
ing his selection from highest work
iof art and then working them out
in corn and other grains There is
a vast exterior surface to be covered,
the building $50 feet long, 90 wide
and 81 fee, high, exclusive OF the
eight towers which stand hisi, in the
lair
I The following suggestions cOnvern-
ing Egyptian art is taken from Il re-
cent issue of Fine Arts, and will aid
one in the study OF the decorations
OH the palace building:
The following suggestions concern
to THINK of it as beautiful, one must
accept it for what it is; an art whose
architecture is heavy and massive
with very little variety in its few
members, but which shows a perfect
understanding and appreciation OF
he value of mass; an art whose
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| rasting and subdividing brilliant pr-
mary colors, With not attempt al
light and shade, aiming at gorgeous
|ricbness and not dciicacy OF el
fleet at decoration and not al im-
tation OF nature: an art whose
sculpture shows no accurate knowl
! edge of anatomy, no attempt at the
rcalism we demand today; an art
whose beauty lies in its monumental
dignity and grandeur, in that ;.bstract
| treatment which renders it admirab-
| ly suited for association with archi
lecture, in its perfect refinement of
lire, and in its well-balanced harmo-
nious composition.
"Egyptian decorative forms are far
removed frGm nature. and have none
love in their ornamentation: but they
have the merit of simplicity and
frankness, as we'll as refinement of
dra wing, which makes them very
we'll adapted for adorning the frank
simple surfaces OF Egyptian archi-
lecture. An additional virtue is the
perfect harmony OF color treatment,
obtained by such direct simple meth
DDS that the complicated work OF to-
day seems by comparison feeble and
insignificant
The detail of the decorations are
an ingenious study, and With the
blending of the various colored corn,
including yellow. white, red, dark
red, bloody butcher, calico, all of
which are used to make the colors
stand, out in striking brilliance. The
two octagon towers opposite the
main entrance are enhanced in beau
|ty with the strong figures OF the En-
4 dro Sphinx, which are duplicated on
tile west side OF the building. The
Sphinx is set in a field Of dark red
corn, while the object is done in vel
low, white and bloody butcher corn
Below is star of the east on n field
Of bloody butcher, the star being in
a panel OF white corn. The tops oi
the towers represent the inverted I-o.
tus flower, made OF red. white and
bloody butcher corn. Below the caves
of the builsing is a large panel oi
bloody butcher corn, in which ap.
pears as near as possible an exact
representation of the pillar of Amen
|hotep III, bordered by funerary OF
fcriugs as shown at Karnak. Ths
picture represents a man and WON
an, life size, who are made Of yellow
white and bloody butcher corn. The
upper part of the panel is adorne'