While you spent the summer promising your mom you’d find a job “next week”, Leo’s actually did some things with itself. You already know it started delivering on promised mini-restaurants, but the really exciting thing is its huge mural (scroll down for better, newer pictures).
John Carroll’s featured, as are some goofy-looking kids answering questions in class. Graduates look fondly on the Hilltop, while a lacrosse player, in a clever bit of tromp l’oeil, attempts to knock down your French fries (above).
I think the mural looks good, especially the John Carroll. Still, the mural strikes me as a little high school. What do you think about it?
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August 20th, 2008 at 12:38 am
I saw that on HoyaTalk a little while ago and though the exact same thing. As for the depictions in the mural, I’m not sure what’s going on with that guy with the noisemaker, and I think making the clock into the Healy clock was a little much. However, they do have Jon Wallace dribbling on a giant book in the middle of the Potomac.
August 20th, 2008 at 2:13 am
Shoot, I meant to mention J Wall walking on water. That pretty much makes anything else in the mural worth it.
August 22nd, 2008 at 12:30 pm
That’s a big ass mural.
August 28th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
This summer, while checking out GU with my friend and her son, I had the pleasure of seeing the mural in progress (I even talked to one of the muralists). I think the artists put together something really special here, not like anything I’ve ever seen (certainly not in any high school!) To me it reads like a vision of the founder and flows through important aspects of life on campus, from the statue to the classroom to the books to sports (connecting academics to sports?), to the well known clock tower (I thought it was cleaver how they tied in that clock), to the campus scene, to the graduates to the seal. I even liked the noisemaker in the graduation scene…looks to me like they are having a well deserved celebration! Nice flow, and I like how they painted Fall colors into blue skies of Spring…pretty amazing and inspiring.