Originally Posted by
lindylou
Hmm, I can't make up my mind really .. .. on first glance he does look a bit like one of the Terracotta army!
.. and I agree that it's a bit Mao like, but looking at some of the Google images,
it doesn't look too bad from certain angles.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=mar...w=1166&bih=653
But a major memorial in a capital city should look good from all angles...
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Originally Posted by
corky100
It can only be a good thing that they made a statue to commemmorate the guy at all TBH. More deserving than most Presidents, I'd say too. The US have, maybe rightly or wrongly, looked on the appointment of this Chinese sculptor as a bad thing - thats inbuilt plain ol' USA patriotism for you. Would a White American Sculptor have tackled this on such scale or grandeur? More likely have been made in 3 years instead of the 20-odd, and for 3 or 4 million instead of the 120million. and be 6 foot tall. Then would we have had any different response? I doubt it..
Nice bit of anti-Americanism...
However this Chinese-American lady made one of the most famous memorials in Washington - a few contraversies on missing content, but the genreal thought and execution was amazing and unique -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Lin
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The judgement is on the output, not the artist....
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