State media have also weighed in on the controversy.<\/p>\n
People\u2019s Daily, the official newspaper of China\u2019s Communist Party, published a commentary on Wednesday calling for a balance between artistic expression and public scrutiny.<\/p>\n
The commentary stated that designing and creating \u201cunconventional\u201d sculptures falls within a creator\u2019s creative freedom, and they would have different aesthetics and modes of \u201cartistic expression\u201d, a right that should be respected.<\/p>\n
However, as the sculptures were placed in a public setting, they should be subject to scrutiny, and the controversy that arose was \u201cnot surprising\u201d.<\/p>\n
It also argued that the move by the park to take down some sculptures was not \u201csuccumbing to public pressure\u201d, but more of taking into consideration its business appeal.<\/p>\n
If the park were to be mired in controversy and lose its popularity due to a few sculptures, \u201cthe losses would outweigh the gains\u201d, according to the commentary, which added that removing them meant cutting losses \u201cin a timely manner\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile art in public spaces should maintain its artistic individuality, it can only receive greater commercial returns by forming a positive interaction with public expectations and reaching a consensus with public aesthetics.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"State media have also weighed in on the controversy. People\u2019s Daily, the official newspaper of China\u2019s Communist Party,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[11480,449,458,459,64,63,512,460,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-217765","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-art","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-artsanddesign","12":"tag-au","13":"tag-australia","14":"tag-china","15":"tag-design","16":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}