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loukr | 18:40 Sun 11th Feb 2007 | Arts & Literature
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what do these words mean to you? I've been given an assignment at college to come up with an aesthetic design incorporating the two words, I can use anything eg text, pictures illustrations, but I just don't know what to do.. I get the idea of urban being very messy/scruffy text etc, and romantic is soft, curvy, pretty... but I just don't know how to mix the two together! any ideas? thanks, Lou x
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I'd say urban is towny so not the countryside picnic side of romantic. What does the romantic towny do? Go out to restaurants, buy flowers from a flowershop, buy jewellery. The rural romantic would probably go out for a walk, have a picnic near the lake, pick a bunch of wild flowers .... saying this; this might well be what an urban romantic would do to be romantic!!!!!! Maybe associating the two where you see somebody actually buying flowers in a flowershop but dreaming of picking some in a field... Just a thought!
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wow I never thought of anything like that lafrancaise :D thanx alot, still can't seem to put them together for a design though.. :( damn college! x
how about something like graffiti but with lots of hearts and maybe a girls name
Who sets these college questions!!? Don't suppose anyone's hinted to you that there's much urban architecture in what's called the 'romantic' style, as distinct from the Neo-Classic. Both were in vogue from the Victorian era up to the 1920s/1930s.
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you'd think they would wouldn't you heathfield.. thanks so much I'll look into it :D

And cheers jules, I'll start designing :D

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"Urban romantic" to me conjures up images of black and white pictures of derelict city buildings. I can just imagine a graffitti scrawled Georgian building looking forlorn. Or a boarded up old cinema. Urban = town. If you look up "romantic" as a movement within arts and literature then you will see that it doesn't particularly mean romantic in a conventional "love" sense. It could also mean idealistic or soulful.
A romantic table for two set on top of a huge skyscaper, complete with red roses, bottle of champagne in a bucket of ice, a waiter standing by... but the smog of the city surrounds it and the couple are having to wear breathing masks with oxygen at the side of their chairs.

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