Maya Lin Vietnam Veteran Memorial Analysis

Near the intersection of Henry Bacon Drive and Constitution Avenue lies the letter V. This letter contains names that are inscribed with chalk. Each one representing a fallen or missing US soldier from the Vietnam war. It is not uncommon to see living veterans kneeling, head against the wall crying. Each one having a story to tell, some waiting for the opportunity while others will take it to the grave. I had decided to find a solider that will, which for me was my high-school principle. Mr. Vega is a living testimony for the statement “Looks can be deceiving.” A small man standing about five foot nine, most students tower him. However, this man has an aura of respect; he does not demand, but it is given unconditionally. Every action is

The artist of the memorial, Maya Lin, is an American of Asian descent who is famous for her sculptures and land art. Her most famous work, the Vietnam Memorial, was chosen in a contest, and her designs both mesmerized and angered many people. Since them, works and designs she has created for competitions have been mainly memorials and remembrances based on historical events. Her works are intended to use the natural texture and geology of the space around the monument to its advantage in its creation.

In the poem “facing it” by Yusef Komunyakaa memorial may be more impacting than the monument itself. The memorial was designed by Maya Lin a student at Yale. She called the design “the architecture of design.” This memorial anticipated an effect on the veterans everywhere, and had a unique impact on the poet Yusef Komunyakaa himself. He found his first introduction to poems through his grandparents reading the old testimate, which sparked his interest for poetry. Later, he served in the Vietnam War from 1969 to 1970 as newspaper editor. A year after that the memorial was built, and he confronted his feelings along with the legacy of the Vietnam War and how race plays a big role into the war. As racism

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall has often been called a healing wall, and for some, it helped them find some closure an their time fighting in an unpopular war.

Maya Lin, an architecture student at Yale University, designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, which was just as controversial as the war was. She submitted her design in the nationwide competition being held for the Vietnam Memorial. The memorial itself is made of black granite with the names of every fallen and missing in action soldier. It sits between the Washington and Lincoln memorials on the National Mall. Lin’s design showed the memorial to be V-shaped and sunken into the ground. The Vietnam war itself was not a celebrated past time like the other wars in US history. It was the first loss in America’s entire history. That in itself polarized many Americas to be against the war especially towards the end. Vietnam was the first modern

After Maya’s childhood years were over, she attended college at Yale University. In her senior year there she entered a nationwide contest with the design of a Vietnam Veterans Memorial to be built in Washington, DC. Maya never let the pressure set in and won the contest against 1,441 other competitors. The black cut-stone wall, with the names of 57,661 fallen

Imagine winning a nationwide contest over some of the best names is architecture as a twenty-one-year-old college student. For Maya Ying Lin, the dream became a reality. She not only won a monetary prize, but her design was also constructed in Washington, D.C. Finished in 1982, a black, reflective wall, sinking down into the earth became known as the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The author of the passage, Brent Ashabranner, chose the title, “Always to Remember: The Vision of Maya Ying Lin,” because of the Vietnam Memorial’s special effect on the nation that will never be forgotten, and the way that Maya Ying Lin took the opportunity to create a vision that paid tribute to those who were lost in the Vietnam War.

After creating her visionary Vietnam Veterans Memorial she suffered much controversy and criticism. Many Veterans believed her simple black wall with listed names was a “black wall of shame”(Ergas 265) and insulting to the traditional idea of white marble and statues of soldiers the veterans had expected. Critics even began using her asian background to discriminate against her, which had not been an issue for Lin before this time. Even Ross Pero after finding out she was asian was heard to call her an egg roll. Lin feels if her lineage had been known at the time of the contest she never would have won. This criticism almost caused Lin to exit the world of art forever, if it hadn’t been for the immense impact the wall had on visitors and the sheer number of them. Many visitors found closure and rejoice in finding there loved ones names and leaving flowers. The rubbings of loved ones names even

During the initial design phase of the Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial, Maya Lin realized that there was a sense of healing that needed to be addressed within her work. She stated her understanding of the artistic problems with such an important work during the Bill Moyers interview. She said she realized that “There is a definite need for something. So, then you have to say, ‘What is it? What should that be?

This project was completed in the period of two weeks in New York’s Central Park with the blooming of the 7,503 fabric panels on February 12, 2005. The gates and fabric panels could be seen from far away through the leafless branches of the trees (christojeanneclaude.net). The main purpose behind this artwork was to create a meaningful public art and how art responds to and impacts our relationship with the built environment (khanacademy.org). Through this work, fresh perspectives about environment, socio-political, and aesthetic characteristics of life are revelaed (home.nwciowa.edu). Environmental artworks of Christo and Jeanne Claude leave a lasting memory on every aspect of life

On May 1, 1981 a jury declared Maya Ying Lin of Athens, Ohio as the winning memorial design. The memorial’s walls point to the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial. 58,267 names are inscribed in chronological order of the date of casualty. I believe this depicts the war as a series of human sacrifices and therefore they shall receive a special place in history. Each name is preceded on the west wall or on the east wall by one of two symbols: a diamond or a cross. The diamond denotes that the individual has been declared deceased. The 780 persons whose names are designated by a cross were either missing or prisoners at the end of the war and remains missing and unaccounted for. If a person returns alive, a circle, as a symbol of life, is inscribed over the cross. In the event an individual’s remains are returned or are otherwise accounted for, the diamond is superimposed over the cross. Knowing this, I remain hopeful that some soldiers will return home alive. Walking beside the wall and seeing the names inscribed allowed me to feel great pride in my country as these soldiers gave up their life fighting for the people of America. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial will properly commemorate each soldier for the rest of

Ever since July 4th, 1776, the vision of the United States has been to constantly improve the government and society in any way possible. Many historical things have happened since that date; slavery was abolished, civil and women’s rights have been signed into law, and just this summer, marriage equality has been made federal law. Despite the efforts to make the United States of America the land of opportunity and equality, people tend to forget about the people who made it possible for the United States to remain the “land of the free”, our U.S. veterans. Our U.S. veterans, over the years, have been treated not like they should have. Veterans have had social security benefits taken from them by the government in secrecy, and bad-mouthed in

In 1985, the former members of the U.S. armed forces, who served in the Korean War, made a union to build a memorial for the Korean War. The U.S. congress authorized the American Battle Monuments Commission to build a memorial in Washington D.C. to honor the U.S. soldiers in 1986. After the fund raising, the Memorial construction began in 1993 and it was completed in 1995. To build the memorial, 18 million dollars was funded and five million dollars of a total cost was assisted from the Korean companies. For the 42nd anniversary of the armistice, that ended the Korean War, and celebrating the visit of South Korea’s President, Young sam, Kim, unveiling event was held on July 27. (두산백과, )

Judith Coburn, on her journalist said “The veterans administration (VA), the preceding agency of the Department of Veterans Affairs, will not be able to meet the needs of U.S. veterans,” veterans suffer getting their benefit. Since the Continental Congress of 1776, start proving pensions to all the disabled soldier because they could not be able to work. Upon the time they established news system to benefit to veterans. They three agency that benefit veterans at are Veterans Bureau, the Bureau of pensions of the interior Department, and the National Home for disabled Volunteer soldiers. The United States have a lot of programs to help the veterans but, throughout the country they are a lot of veterans that are are homeless

Our curatorial theme is environmentally conscious and sustainable art. The two artists of my choosing, Nathalie Miebach and Olafur Eliasson, make artworks that are inspired and informed by the environment in ways that are somewhat nontraditional for environmental art. Nathalie makes sculptural representations of weather data from storms; Olafur Eliasson makes works that examine the viewer’s connection and experience of various environments and breaks down those experiences and replicates that in manmade ways.