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<p>[QUOTE="chip, post: 917285, member: 19122"]I think the medal of honor coin has some possibility for a great design, since the medal itself is beautiful and the subject lends itself to the allegory of bravery, love of your fellow man, and those things seem tailormade for a coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>But a coin honoring five star generals? That coin imo deserves to be ugly, the subject matter is the men who were awarded five stars as their ranking? what could an artist do with such a charge, he could represent the men in profile, or he could represent them as a group, or he could represent them some other way. Marshall, Macarthur, Arnold, Eisenhower and Omar Bradley, so there you go, all competent generals, none that were particularly inspiring for boldness or genius. I feel sorry for the artists that are tagged to have to put their names to such a work. </p><p><br /></p><p>If the CCAC and the CFA want to see great designs they should take the artists off the leash law, I do not expect any decent designs from the 5 star generals coin, I am hopeful for the Medal of Honor coin, if they can use the general sense of ideals that are represented by the medal and can refrain from the narratives where they pick out some representation of bravery to illustrate.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="chip, post: 917285, member: 19122"]I think the medal of honor coin has some possibility for a great design, since the medal itself is beautiful and the subject lends itself to the allegory of bravery, love of your fellow man, and those things seem tailormade for a coin. But a coin honoring five star generals? That coin imo deserves to be ugly, the subject matter is the men who were awarded five stars as their ranking? what could an artist do with such a charge, he could represent the men in profile, or he could represent them as a group, or he could represent them some other way. Marshall, Macarthur, Arnold, Eisenhower and Omar Bradley, so there you go, all competent generals, none that were particularly inspiring for boldness or genius. I feel sorry for the artists that are tagged to have to put their names to such a work. If the CCAC and the CFA want to see great designs they should take the artists off the leash law, I do not expect any decent designs from the 5 star generals coin, I am hopeful for the Medal of Honor coin, if they can use the general sense of ideals that are represented by the medal and can refrain from the narratives where they pick out some representation of bravery to illustrate.[/QUOTE]
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