Chinese artists version of the Last Supper sells for $23 million

by fulltimestudent 5 Replies latest social current

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  fulltimestudent

  Here it is:

  

  Interesting work. Note the Judas figure is shown with two faces, and in lieu of the usual effeminate

  depiction of St. John, the artist seems to have decided to demonstrate the physical closeness of Jesus and John

  as described in John's own version of the event by suggesting 'gayness' rather than effeminacy.

  And, of course, being Chinese, they're finishing the meal with fruit

  Compare that to this version by Jacopo Bassano.

  

  Bassano depicts John as rather bored, but still the most honest depiction of the intimacy with Jesus, described by John at ch 13:23.

  The RSV translates it:

  One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was lying close to the breast of Jesus;

  Put a woman there and you'd wonder what the relationship was?
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  fakesmile

  yup. like everything else, the chinese make an inferior less expensive version. and are you SURE its the last supper? it looks like a room full of half dressed gaishas.
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  Simon

  Also, does this mean that Jesus had man-boobs?
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  fulltimestudent

  Also, does this mean that Jesus had man-boobs?

  I know the scriptural answer to that Brother Simon.

  The answer is YES! - Why?

  Now Adam when created, was both male and female ('cos Yahweh took the female component out of him - (symbolised by the rib) to make Eve.

  So before that point, Adam must have had female-like breasts. (It's still easy for men to get them - lots of old geezers have floppy ones- similar toi their wives - and through my GAYXJW friend, I've met a few young guys with very nice sets of, (ahem !!) chemically induced breasts.

  But back to the argument.

  Jesus, as you well know, is the second Adam. So its likely that when John leaned back on Jesus' (ahem) breast(s), it could've been because they were nice and soft. But then again, maybe he liked something firm to lean back on.

  Am I right?

  Now this post should be deleted in case we stumble someone !!!!!!
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  fulltimestudent

  fakesmile:

  like everything else, the chinese make an inferior less expensive version

  Is $23 million US dollars cheap? - Jeeeez mate, you must be rich !!!
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  villagegirl

  Its stupid and contemptuous. For a culture who

  hasn't invented anytthing in one thousand years

  they have developed huge egos over the fact

  Westerners brought products to them, built their factories

  and showed them how to do mass production and then transported

  the products on Western ready cargo ships, warehouses, trucking

  products on interstes roads to shopping centres and all this in exchange

  for bodies, Chinese slave labor, working 16 hours a day for a dollar.

  Shame on us for creating a monster called the Rich Chinese,

  using, stealing, hacking, our technology and inventions and ideas

  and selling us back copies of our own inventions.

  Still, I am so glad I am not Chinese, I can't imagine how being so

  completely influenced by outsiders you hate, must feel.