Art History: Maya Lin

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Maya Lin Carl Adams April 27, 2012 Art History Born in 1959 in Athens, Ohio, Maya Lin catapulted into the public eye when, as a senior at Yale University, she submitted the winning design in a national competition for a Vietnam Veterans Memorial to be built in Washington, D.C. She was trained as an artist and architect, and her sculptures, parks, monuments, and architectural projects are linked by her ideal of making a place for individuals within the landscape. Lin, a Chinese-American, came from a cultivated and artistic home. Her father was the dean of fine arts at Ohio University; her mother is a professor of literature at Ohio University. She draws inspiration for her sculpture and architecture from culturally diverse sources, including…show more content…
Lin envisioned a v-shaped granite wall that had the names of many Vietnam Veterans that had fought for our country and that have died in vain for America to maintain its freedom. The wall also had the names of missing Vietnam Veterans. Maya Lin wanted to accomplish that the names, seemingly infinite in number, would convey the sense of overwhelming numbers, while unifying these individuals into a whole or as one. Maya Lin drawing was entered in with 1,421 other designs, she won the competition. Her design was very significant and also unique. There was a lot of controversy when her design was picked because what she stands for and her beliefs. Her name was not even mentioned at the dedication of the memorial in 1982. After the dedication of the memorial, she coped with the painful controversy by returning to Yale University as a graduate student. The Vietnam Memorial is the most-visited memorial in the nation’s…show more content…
In other words the drawing has balance to it and is mirrored. The linear prospective of this drawing has two vanishing points, one on the left and right side of the drawing. The main attraction in the viewer of an architect is using a geometric scale to draw a triangle to be input into a side of a hill. The art is realism because the art important piece for a person or people. This work of art portrays the natural world by putting a work of art into the natural
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