Another Last Supper
Elisabeth Riba
From the Chicago Tribune:
PARODY OF `LAST SUPPER' DRAWS COMPLAINTS
A CHICAGO ARTIST'S TAKE ON THE POWER OF ADVERTISING ANGERS SOME
PEOPLE, WHO SAY IT RIDICULES RELIGION AND JESUS CHRIST.
By Oscar Avila
Tribune Staff Writer
February 21, 2001
A painting that uses Toucan Sam, Cap'n Crunch and other breakfast
favorites as figures in a parody of Leonardo da Vinci's religious
masterpiece "The Last Supper" is causing an uproar in Schaumburg.
More than 100 callers have complained since "The Last Pancake
Breakfast" went on display Friday at the Chicago Athenaeum. The work
features cartoon characters partaking of pancakes and orange juice.
Mrs. Butterworth, of syrup fame, fills the role of Jesus.
Critics say the work is blasphemous, and the debate provides an
offbeat echo of a controversy in New York, where an art museum is
displaying a photographic version of "The Last Supper" with a nude
woman as Jesus.
Athenaeum officials see a bright side to the local outcry.
"Anytime you can create a discourse that gives people something
stimulating to talk about, it's a good thing," Julie Reichert-Marton,
director of administration for the museum, said Tuesday.
Reichert-Marton said she respects the criticism, and acknowledged that
organizers briefly considered moving the painting out of the main
exhibit. But on Tuesday, officials reaffirmed their commitment to
keeping the painting on display at the Athenaeum, 190 S. Roselle Rd.
"The Last Pancake Breakfast," by Chicago artist Dick Detzner, is one
of more than 60 works by emerging artists in an exhibit called "Art
Scene Chicago." Most of the complaints came before the exhibit's
opening, when a suburban newspaper ran a photo of the painting.
Sixteen Catholic parishioners from the northwest suburbs submitted a
petition, with a copy of the article, that stated: "Please remove this
picture from your exhibit. It is ridiculing the Last Supper of Our
Lord, Jesus Christ!"
Detzner said he never received any complaints when he exhibited the
work in Lakeview and Lincoln Park.
The painting is part of his 13-work collection called "Corporate
Sacrilege," which also includes Jesus on a Wheaties box, Mickey and
Minnie Mouse in the Garden of Eden, and the Pillsbury Doughboy on a
crucifix, being poked in the belly by the hand of God.
Detzner said "The Last Pancake Breakfast" is "the most innocuous of
the whole bunch" and called the criticism surprising. He intends for
his work to show how corporate icons can create visceral reactions as
intense as religious icons.
"If anything, I would have expected to hear from the companies I'm
lampooning. What I'm going after is not religion, it's advertising,"
Detzner said.
Rev. Phil Horrigan, director of environment and art for the
Archdiocese of Chicago, said he was amused, not offended, by "The Last
Pancake Breakfast."
But Horrigan, who helps decide what artwork is appropriate for
liturgical settings, understands why some Catholics find it
disturbing.
"My devotion and faith are bigger than any single piece of art," he
said.
The Schaumburg exhibit went on display the same day that the Brooklyn
Museum of Art began showing "Yo Mama's Last Supper," by photographer
Renee Cox. Mayor Rudolph Giuliani of New York City and a conservative
Catholic organization called that work "anti-Catholic."
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----------> Elisabeth Anne Riba * l...@osmond-riba.org <----------
"[She] is one of the secret masters of the world: a librarian.
They control information. Don't ever piss one off."
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Elisabeth Riba
http://www.dailynorthwestern.com/daily/issues/1999/10/06/etc/detzner.shtml
And a picture of one of his other works ("Breakfast of Saviors")
is at http://home.earthlink.net/~rubeldetzner/jesus.htm
Elisabeth Riba
http://www.dailynorthwestern.com/daily/issues/1999/10/06/etc/detzner.shtml
And a picture of one of his other works ("Breakfast of Saviors")
is at http://home.earthlink.net/~rubeldetzner/jesus.htm
http://home.earthlink.net/~rubeldetzner/frmdikpt.htm is the artists' home
page, with thumbnails of many of his other works.
Interesting, funny, and sometiimes thought-provoking, IMHO.
Marc
Eric da Red
Elisabeth Riba <l...@osmond-riba.org> wrote:
>Another article on "The Last Pancake Breakfast" can be found at
>http://www.dailynorthwestern.com/daily/issues/1999/10/06/etc/detzner.shtml
>And a picture of one of his other works ("Breakfast of Saviors")
>is at http://home.earthlink.net/~rubeldetzner/jesus.htm
My favorite is:
http://home.earthlink.net/~rubeldetzner/frmdikpt.htm
Eric,
thinks cinnamon rolls should be a sacrament.
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for myself, but for predecessors as well." -- President Shrub
Bill Bonde
Marc wrote:
>
> Please - O GOD - a link to this artwork. I'd love to see this one!!!!!!!!
>
Isn't there a link to the one in NY somewhere? I couldn't find one and I
looked even.
Marc
on their front page (you'll have to scroll down a bit) there is a link to a
story about it, and the piece is pictured
"Bill Bonde" <std...@mail.com> wrote in message
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Bill Bonde
Marc wrote:
>
> go to www.salon.com
> on their front page (you'll have to scroll down a bit) there is a link to a
> story about it, and the piece is pictured
>
Got a URL for the pic itself? I can't find it. I can find other pictures
of her naked on the site but not that one.
Rick
salon.com only covers the "Another Last Supper", not the Detzner "Another
Another Last Supper".
- Rick
Rev. Dr. Tim, BsD
Someone (Lis or maybe Potter?) posted a link to it the other
day. It only showed the main panel. It was in Salon. Check their
censorship section.
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"Well, I don't care if it rains or freezes,
Long as I have my plastic Jesus"
ktone
tim...@newsguy.com writes:
>>Got a URL for the pic itself? I can't find it. I can find
>>other pictures of her naked on the site but not that one.
>
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/p/nm/20010222/en/imdf22022001140341a.html
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kt...@nyetspamchitown.com..........
Rev. Dr. Tim, BsD
>In article <905066A63timh...@209.155.56.94> Rev.
>Dr. Tim, tim...@newsguy.com writes:
>>>Got a URL for the pic itself? I can't find it. I can find
>>>other pictures of her naked on the site but not that one.
>>
>
>http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/p/nm/20010222/en/imdf220220011403
>41a.html
I didn't write that.
Rick
<90521C432timh...@209.155.56.90>...
It was Bill who wanted the nekkid pictures.
- Rick