 | trebon1038 (62)
04/23/2008 | Some might not think it is so great however part of what makes a painting great is its recognition. We all know of it and it still amazes people all these years later.
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 | queen karen (0)
12/27/2005 | What I find interesting about the "The last Supper" is this painting is supposedly a rendition of Jesus and his disciples having a Passover dinner. My wonderment is why is there bread on the table. At Passover, no leavened bread is allowed to be eaten for the duratation of Passover. Therefore, I wonder why there is bread on the table?? It may have been Leonardo's lack of knowledge about Jewish law and tradition.
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 | xod (0)
09/30/2004 | This painting is in the dining room of a monastery, where the monks are sworn to a vow of silence. Da Vinci must have thought this vow incredibly lame, as he painted something that beautifully compels the viewer to conversation. In any case, it is a wonderful paradox that someone relying on their mere sense-perception (this painting is more about pictorial organzation, perspective, use of light and color...blah blah blah) cannot understand or even perceive. Don't mistake babbling for thinking. Some people just regurgitate things they heard in art school, or what they read in some idiotic text book. This is a masterpiece. The idea that the figures are wooden and action is static is so far off as to be offensive. Are you looking at the same painting as me or what?
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 | Moosekarloff (17)
04/27/2004 |  A rather static and prosaic visual rendering of a shopworn Bible story that is well balanced and painted, yet so idealized as to be unrealistic, and hence, conceptual. Most people read this painting at face value as an object of piety, thereby missing the entire point. This painting is more about pictorial organization, perspective, use of light and color, establishment of mood and atmosphere and painterly rendering than the subject matter it presents. This is why the figures seem so wooden and the action depicted seems so static: the imagery merely serves as vocabulary for the underlying formal and technical concerns of the painting. Another example of an artist's most famous work being far from his greatest. What is distressing about this work is its poor physical condition, owing to neglect, suspect care and adverse atmospheric conditions over the course of five centuries. In addition, da Vinci was constantly experimenting with pigment and surface materials, even in his major works, and as a result, many of his paintings as objects have not held up well over time. The work has been restored but the jury's still out on how effective and successful that reclamation effort was.
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