The Kiss Maya Lin Analysis

Maya Lin is an incredible artist. Hearing her speak only further helped me understand and appreciate her work. She puts so much of her heart and soul into her work and genuinely thinks through each aspect of each piece and how she can better express her thoughts through this art, so that these thoughts can be recognized better and more easily, as well as assumed and agreed with. I was also able to learn that she felt that drawings wouldn’t have been able to describe or interpret the idea for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, so she spent months at a time writing an essay of the description, and had originally designed the project for an assignment when she was an undergraduate at Yale University. When in the midst of creating it, she had the desire to not involve the politics of it, and wanted the piece to be …show more content…
A large scale outdoor public installation/sculpture in my area is among one of my favorite pieces of art. It is located in the Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum, the outdoor sculpture museum near Barton Springs pool and Zilker Park, in the Zilker neighborhood of Austin, Texas. Titled “The Kiss,” this sculpture was created by Charles Umlauf in 1970 and is assumed to be officially installed around 1991. After Charles Umlauf and his wife, Angie, gave the city of Austin their home, Charles’ studio and 168 pieces of sculpture back in 1985, the city then built and established the museum in 1991 and put its sculptural pieces on display for the people of Austin to enjoy. Today, volunteers and staff continue to maintain the property. The first time my boyfriend and I were able to visit the Umlauf Sculpture Garden and viewed “The Kiss” sculpture, we were both intrigued by who created it, for what purpose, and with what materials. We also had little to no guesses as to what the sculpture could be trying to