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During their wedding reception, Justin and Heather Hartley arranged guests in the poses of a Battlestar Galatica promotional picture. The BSG photo was in imitation of Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper. That’s kind of a dark tone for a wedding, but let’s work with it.
Chris Parks painted and arranged twelve skateboards that depict Jesus and his disciples from Da Vinci’s The Last Supper as Mexican wrestlers. Naturally, the Eucharistic elements are a taco and a Corona beer. You can see several detailed photos at the link.
If you liked this, be sure to check out Jeremy Barker’s massive repository of pop culture Last Suppers.
Brian Stuckey spent 3 months drawing The Last Breakfast, where all your favorite breakfast mascots get together for one last breakfast:
Pop from the Rice Krispies as Judas Iscariot? I shoulda known!
Embiggen at Brian’s website: Link | Etsy Store
Laura Bell of Roscommon, Michigan, collected laundry dryer lint and used it to make an enormous version of Leonardo DaVinci’s The Last Supper:
Bell says she needed about 800 hours to do enough laundry to get the lint, and 200 hours to recreate the mural. She bought towels of the colors she wanted and laundered them separately to get the right shades of lint.
The 14-foot wide painting was just bought by the Ripley’s Believe It or Not company.
Link via Theresa Coleman’s Facebook page | Photo: Ripley’s
Obesity experts at Cornell University say that depictions of the Last Supper, such as that of Leonardo da Vinci (above), have shown increasingly larger meal portions for the past thousand years:
They found the main courses, bread and plates put before Jesus and his disciples have progressively grown by up to two-thirds.
This, they say, is art imitating life.
Professor Brian Wansink, who, with his brother Craig, led the research, published in the International Journal of Obesity, said: “The last thousand years have witnessed dramatic increases in the production, availability, safety, abundance and affordability of food.
Link | Image: Art Renewal Center
Five artists from the art collective Cube Works in Toronto recreated Leonardo Da Vinci’s The Last Supper out of 4,050 cubes, in all measuring 8.5 by 17 feet. The work was entered into the Guinness Book of World Records and sold to a collector in Florida.
Link via Popped Culture | Artists’ Website (Warning: self-starting audio)
Jeremy Barker at Popped Culture has compiled 101 satirical versions of da Vinci’s The Last Supper, covering everything from Popeye to Mario Brothers to Gordon Ramsay.
