What’s Wrong with this Picture?
2008 May 12
Find out after the jump
A powerful federal arts commission is urging that the sculpture of Martin Luther King Jr. proposed for a memorial on the Tidal Basin be reworked because it is too “confrontational” and reminiscent of political art in totalitarian states.
The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts thinks “the colossal scale and Social Realist style of the proposed statue recalls a genre of political sculpture that has recently been pulled down in other countries,” commission secretary Thomas Luebke said in a letter in April.
By law, no project like the memorial can go forward without approval from the commission, the federal agency that advises the government on public design and aesthetics in the capital.
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I have to agree. The first thing that got off the picture was a real Stalinist image. MLK deserves better than this. Strong and dictatorial are two different things.
I’m not Black but I am a tax payer….. and for once I am willing to support the cost of revising this insult to one who was a true human being…..a true gift to this earth!
Wow, that is really stand offish, I’m suprised it made it that far.