Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Today's elections in the United States

This is George Caleb Bingham's "Verdict of the People," part of a series of pre-Civil War paintings evoking the evolving American democracy. Clicking should give you a larger image, thanks to Humanities Web.

I was struck today by the thought that this depiction is rather Manichaean in its use of dark and light. For what that's worth.

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