The building of a statue of Martin Luther King Jr for a memorial in Washington has been stalled. This happened after a federal commission compared the sculpture to the art of dictatorial regimes. This statue was being planned to be stationed as the key showpiece for a Martin Luther King Jr memorial near Tidal Basin in Washington. It is the ‘colossal scale’ as well as the ‘static style’ of the proposed 28-foot granite statue of Martin Luther King Jr that has become a cause for concern to the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts.
 

U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, which wields the approval power for such projects, remarked that this statue ‘recalls a genre of political sculpture that has recently been pulled down in other countries’. It substantiated its point by saying that the clay model being made in China for the sculpture showed the leader standing with his arms crossed. The panel explained that this posture of the stature was too challenging. Ed Jackson Jr., who is this project's chief architect, is busy deliberating ways to tackle the commission's objections.