The Last Supper

Star Wars Last Supper
Eric Deschamps was commissioned to paint this by Giant magazine before the final Star Wars installment was released. From the painter: "They wanted selected Star Wars characters in the Last Supper. I started out staying really close to the poses in the actual last supper painting then ended up straying away from them a bit to make the wide range of characters fit."




House Last Supper
What better theme for a medical show - where doctors, specially in House, really do feel like god... This is their Season Four promotional figure and its beautifully done. Set in an operating room with a patient for a table, it mimics da Vinci's Last Supper perfectly.



Northern Exposure Last Supper
In an episode of Northern Exposure, local DJ Chris Stevens has a dream sequence where he imagines himself as Christ at a Last Supper while he tries to figure out how best to honour his mentor Tooley. It is from the Season Four episode, Heroes.




Battlestar Galactica's Last Supper
I don't really watch Battlestar Galactica much.... and do I have not much to say about this image outside the fact it is will lit but you start getting the drift, where TV shows and series such as The Sopranos, Star Wars, House, Battlestar Galactica (and I'm sure there are a lot other ones that I never found) make use of the same theme - where a number of characters can be groups together, with a central focal view, highlighting importance of some sort - be done using a bit of humour.


Commercially this is done as well...


Mickey Mouse Last Supper
One of several works by pop artist and culture jammer Ron English. Notice how the disciples are divided between Disney and Warner Bros. characters all looking to Mickey Mouse, the first cartoon superstar, as Jesus. What puts it to the top though is cartoon spokesperson Joe Camel as Judas. Symbolism well picked and distributed....




iPhone Last Supper
The iPhone Supper is a nice riff on the ascendence of the iPhone, but it could have been so much better. How about a pink iPod Nano to the left of the Iphone and maybe a Zune in the Judas spot. But hey, I'm just the aggregator, not the artist.




Cookie Last Supper
The Last Snack, a photo by Tom Altany, was nominated for the International Color Award for color photography (Advertising category) in 2006.



But what about the controversy?



France's Catholic Church won a court injunction to ban a clothing advertisement based on Leonardo da Vinci's Christ's Last Supper.The display was ruled "a gratuitous and aggressive act of intrusion on people's innermost beliefs", by a judge.

The authorities in the Italian city of Milan banned the poster the following month.

Italy's advertising watchdog said the ad's use of Christian symbols including a dove and a chalice recalled the foundations of the faith and would offend the sensitivity of part of the population. The Catholic Church used a similar argument against the advert, which also shows two of the apostles embracing a bare-chested man in jeans. "When you trivialise the founding acts of a religion, when you touch on sacred things, you create an unbearable moral violence which is a danger to our children," said lawyer Thierry Massis.

And if that image caused controversy - just think of what this image did...



The “half-naked homosexual sadomasochists” sparked controversy at the Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco. Under pressure from a media blitz orchestrated by Christian conservatives, Miller Brewing Co. asked to remove its logo from the poster (pictured above). U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was among those defending the image.
I was all set to issue a major news release promoting this latest addition to the global boom in queer Christ art. Right-wing Christians don’t own the copyright on Jesus! It’s important to create new images of God based on the experiences of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) people.

The double edge of content....