Angelou says MLK Memorial change makes him look like an ‘arrogant twit.’ Evidently Maya doesn’t like the Chinese version of Martin Luther King. We do think this would be the perfect guy to do a statue of Obama. He could get the same result without modifying anything.
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I will upload two photos. ONE is the ACTUAL photo the artist used to make this statue and the other of Dr. King, the Statue and chairman Moa.
http://i1090.photobucket.com/albums/i369/martin431/kingphoto.jpg
(actual photo used to create the statue--does it look like Dr King?)
http://i1090.photobucket.com/albums/i369/martin431/threekings.jpg
(above is a photo of King, the statue, and Chairman Moa) Does this looks like they overlaid Kings facemask over a Moa statue or am I wrong? The face is not REALLY Dr. Kings.
Notice the eyes are DEFINITELY narrower, the forehead is broader and squarer (he also gave him a lot of ‘ brow bossing’ that king didn’t have), the upper lip is larger, the coat is classic Stalin/Moa military uniform.
Communist cubist art always has the men standing tall in uniforms that "blouse out' at the bottom with large pocket flap. Dr. King didn't wear this kind of suit. BUT all of Moa's statues and Stalin's statues look exactly like this with the military style coats and stern look. THIS artist did the Moa statue in China, it is the artists preferred style. In the original photo, Dr Kings eyes look up in deep thought but in the statue they look menacingly down and to the side. This is not the look of a man who practiced and believed in Civil Disobedience.
This statue not only doesn't look like Dr.King but doesn't capture who he was. This is a statue of a communist dictator not a humble composed man who practiced Civil Disobedience. It teaches NOTHING.
So instead of using our own marble (do we have marble?) or else buy it from a American country (Canada? Argentina?) and have an american artist do it, we paid the Chinese to do this? So we borrow from them and we pay them back by giving them the opportunity to do little odd jobs here and there.. how awful.
Yes the statue is absolutley hideous.
Yes, Kimmy. We have marble. LOTS of marble, and some of it is truly beautiful. And we have artists, fine artists, not the NEA type. Somebody got some 'splainin' to do.
Absolutely.
I'm surprised there aren't a couple chop sticks coming out of MLK's hair.
That's what you get for buying from a catalog. Never cut corners on a big ticket item.
I've said it before but the statue is hideous.
I agree. I also do think MLK deserves a statue. I think it is a horrible statue, carving or whatever they want to say.
For the Chinese to have made it....the Chinese who are brutal to their own ethnic groups...is a disgrace
The guy who sculpted it said he felt a connection to King's objectives, since he had suffered much discrimination in China.
Interesting. Does he still live in China? and if he still lives in China as he been heard of since making that statement? :-/
Maya Angelou is right, the MLK statue is poorly conceived. 28 feet of Chinese granite carved by a Chinese artist that would be more appropriate standing in Beijing or Pyongyang. We can do better.
Takes one to know one.