bitterlyclingin
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(Some of the first viewers were unhappy with the art behind the statue, saying the statue was too imposing, too pretentious, with a scale too large, unbefitting a man as humble as MLK. Simple answer for that. As Hitler preferred a certain style of German art, and the German artists that remained alive responded with works in that style, so too with the Chinese. The Chinese artist took what would have been a statue of Chairman Mao and simply put MLK's head on it. Anita Dunn and Cass Sunstein, two Obama advisors as well as admirers of Chairman Mao, will surely approve.)
"The 30ft-tall statue, which forms the centrepiece of a $120 million (£73 million), four-acre memorial to Dr King, opened to the public on Monday on the National Mall in Washington. It is the only memorial on the Mall that does not honour a president or fallen soldiers.
Standing in the shadow of the Washington Monument, the statue shows Dr King emerging from a mountain of Chinese granite with his arms crossed and is called The Stone of Hope.
However, there has been controversy over the choice of Lei Yixin, a 57-year-old master sculptor from Changsha in Hunan province, to carry out the work. Critics have openly asked why a black, or at least an American, artist was not chosen and even remarked that Dr King appears slightly Asian in Mr Lei's rendering"
Martin Luther King memorial made in China - Telegraph
"The 30ft-tall statue, which forms the centrepiece of a $120 million (£73 million), four-acre memorial to Dr King, opened to the public on Monday on the National Mall in Washington. It is the only memorial on the Mall that does not honour a president or fallen soldiers.
Standing in the shadow of the Washington Monument, the statue shows Dr King emerging from a mountain of Chinese granite with his arms crossed and is called The Stone of Hope.
However, there has been controversy over the choice of Lei Yixin, a 57-year-old master sculptor from Changsha in Hunan province, to carry out the work. Critics have openly asked why a black, or at least an American, artist was not chosen and even remarked that Dr King appears slightly Asian in Mr Lei's rendering"
Martin Luther King memorial made in China - Telegraph