Maya Lin I Have A Dream Speech Analysis
Similarly to Bread Givers’ Sara Smolinsky, Maya Lin is the daughter of immigrants who fled to the United States in 1948 before the 1949 Communist takeover of China. On the date of October 5, 1959, she was born in Athens, Ohio (Biography.com Editors). Lin’s parents were intellectuals who eventually became professors at Ohio University; teaching ceramics (father) and English (mother). As a result from accompanying her parents to the university, she and her brother (a poet) were encouraged to be creative. Eventually, she attended Yale University and became a well-known artist, designer, architect, sculptor, and educator (Biography.com Editors). Notably, her aesthetic in her art incorporates nature, typography, and minimalistic elements.
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In the same fashion as the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the material used is granite but incorporates the element of flowing water. First, the wall has the inscription from Martin Luther King Jr's I Have A Dream speech, “ “Until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream” with water constantly flowing down the wall. Meanwhile, the table has inscriptions of events, deaths, and public policy regarding the Civil Rights Movement in chronological order. It starts from the Supreme Court decision of Brown versus the Board of Education (1954) until the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. (1968). Through these inscriptions, Lin says, “I realized that I wanted to create a time line: a chronological listing of the Movement's major events and its individual deaths, which together would show how people's lives influenced history and how their deaths made things better” (History). Montgomery, Alabama is the birthplace of the civil rights movement and the first capitol of the Confederacy, where the memorial is located makes the location historically …show more content…
Lin received her her Master of Architecture from Yale in 1986. Her numerous awards include: Presidential Design Award, the Mayor's Award for Arts and Culture, a National Endowment for the Arts artist' award, the William A. Bernoudy Resident in Architecture fellowship from the American Academy in Rome, the Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, an AIA Honor Award, the Finn Juhl Prize, and honorary doctorates from Yale, Harvard, Williams, and Smith College, etc
In the …show more content…
In the same fashion as the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the material used is granite but incorporates the element of flowing water. First, the wall has the inscription from Martin Luther King Jr's I Have A Dream speech, “ “Until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream” with water constantly flowing down the wall. Meanwhile, the table has inscriptions of events, deaths, and public policy regarding the Civil Rights Movement in chronological order. It starts from the Supreme Court decision of Brown versus the Board of Education (1954) until the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. (1968). Through these inscriptions, Lin says, “I realized that I wanted to create a time line: a chronological listing of the Movement's major events and its individual deaths, which together would show how people's lives influenced history and how their deaths made things better” (History). Montgomery, Alabama is the birthplace of the civil rights movement and the first capitol of the Confederacy, where the memorial is located makes the location historically …show more content…
Lin received her her Master of Architecture from Yale in 1986. Her numerous awards include: Presidential Design Award, the Mayor's Award for Arts and Culture, a National Endowment for the Arts artist' award, the William A. Bernoudy Resident in Architecture fellowship from the American Academy in Rome, the Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, an AIA Honor Award, the Finn Juhl Prize, and honorary doctorates from Yale, Harvard, Williams, and Smith College, etc