Comments on: Hello http://blog.art21.org/2009/01/20/hello/ The Official Blog of Art21, Inc. and the <i>Art in the Twenty-First Century</i> PBS series Fri, 17 May 2013 17:30:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Daniel Quiles http://blog.art21.org/2009/01/20/hello/comment-page-1/#comment-10245 Daniel Quiles Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:46:06 +0000 http://blog.art21.org/2009/01/20/hello/#comment-10245 Why yes it is. I thought it appropriate for a figure who so emblematizes the ideal of consensus that David tried to depict in this work.

David, incidentally, never finished this ultimate statement on the French Revolution, for by 1791 the Revolution was already eating itself. A representation of total consensus and unity had already become an absurd gesture.

Not to rain on anyone’s (inaugural) parade, but I always think about David’s unfinished image when Obama speaks of “perfecting our union.”

]]> By: A'yen http://blog.art21.org/2009/01/20/hello/comment-page-1/#comment-10241 A'yen Wed, 21 Jan 2009 08:06:47 +0000 http://blog.art21.org/2009/01/20/hello/#comment-10241 is that the tennis court oath?

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