Comments on: Feel Art Again: “An Election Entertainment”

By: Amy

Amy — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 18:20:23 +0000

I wouldn’t mind waking up tomorrow and having it be 11 days later. It’d be Thanksgiving break :)

Thanks for another great post Andréa (yea…I finally remembered the keystrok to get the accent in your name :)

By: bob

bob — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:10:51 +0000

It’s funny, but I just had a lecture on this series of paintings in by British History class. We were looking at eighteenth century elections. You can also see the orange flag, for William of Orange and the Glorious Revolution, and a Tory mob through the window.
My favorite was the painting showing the actual voting, when the voters waiting in line are a lunatic tied to his chair and an invalid being carried by his nurses.

Also, I can imagine losing eleven days could have a serious effect on workers, especially if say, they were paid by the day but had to pay rent by the month. It could also create a whole lot of small, annoying problems with contracts and such.

By: Bassman

Bassman — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 12:28:08 +0000

That’s funny. It’s just the sort of thing that would hang in my living room. Along with the WWI recruitment poster already there.
There are many things historical and sociological to be learned from both.

By: Therese

Therese — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 03:16:29 +0000

Wow, this is some busy painting! It seems there is a lot of social commentary (and now, history) contained in this painting, and although I wouldn’t want it hanging in my living room, it would certainly spark some interesting conversations…

By: Kelly

Kelly — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:39:55 +0000

There’s almost too much going on in this painting for me to wrap my head around. That’s funny about how the workers thought they were losing wages.

This is such a cool painting. I wonder why nobody else has commented?