La Jeune Fille a la Fleur is an utterly beautiful image taken by Marc Riboud, showing a young woman protesting the Vietnam War planting a flower on the bayonet of a solider. This image is incredibly powerful, and went on to represent the flower power movement, showing what a little beauty and peace can really do to positively affect the future. The image accurately portrays the ideals of the flower power music by using a whimsical color scheme, stark juxtaposition, and powerful symbols. The color scheme of the whole image is a bit blurred, but very bright, and has many pastels. It seems hopeful, if a bit sad at the same time. The reality of fighting against war is a somber one that would take a great deal of time to accomplish, and the color schematics of this image truly reflect this. This palette is perpetuated by a unique juxtaposition. Nervous soldiers dressed in all black point their bayonets to a woman not in fear, but dreamily attempting to convert them, and the comparison almost seems startling. This juxtaposition shows what the flower power movement wanted to change, the military and wars in general, and how differently they approached it than a military would. The last piece, perhaps the most powerful, is the flower. It is the focal point of the image, and became a symbol of the flower power movement, change through beauty, peace, and harmony. La Jeune Fille a la Fleur is an incredibly powerful image, and the rhetorical message truly pervades it.
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