Imbecilic Olympic, "controversy."

The BBQ Pit
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It looked more like bacchanal paintings to me.

The Last Supper was a lot more composed and less chaotic. Leonardo made great use of geometry (ironically imitating the ancient Greeks there) to compose his painting. This is in contrast to the disorder you see in paintings that portray the feast of Dionysus, which is what they were portraying in Paris.

Also note that the Last Supper wasn’t original either. That painting was done somewhere between 1495-1498 CE. Here is one example of an earlier painting done in 1447, a full 50 years earlier.

And that’s just one of the earlier examples of artists portraying the subject. One thing that made Leonardo’s painting different was how he portrayed people; before, usually everyone but Judas was shown as having a halo. Leonardo chose to give Jesus a halo, and he alone; Judas was singled out instead by having a shadow on his face.

But regardless, the Last Supper is not the only painting that looks like this, and wasn’t the inspiration for what was in the Paris ceremony. And frankly it’s arrogant and ignorant to think otherwise.

(I am not singling you out for that comment by the way, I’m directing it toward everyone outraged by it without knowing what they’re even seeing.)

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Okay, fine. I’m just interpreting. I really have to stop that.

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Is it possible to mock that famous da Vinci fresco and not be mocking The Last Supper?
If what those Christians who are offended believed is wrong, isn’t that their fault and no one else’s?

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And let’s not forget Black Sabbath’s DVD

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It’d be helpful if the French had a word for “avant-garde” to help us out here.

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The big lady with the Halo.

I’m afraid that supposed to a representation of Jesus in Da Vinci.
The blue guy is obviously in the other.

So a mash-up of both. Probably other characters in there too.

I can’t see it close enough to judge.

These Christians are just being feckless in their dumb outrage.

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How dare they mock my Dog!

Stranger

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Count the number of people, the fact that they were standing, and the person/entity being featured.

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I bet everyone of those dogs has had sexual reassignment surgery!
“Help control the pet population. Have your pets spayed or neutered.”

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Some official Olympic guy says the guy on the table is the Greek god, Dionysus.

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So the list of things that Real American Patriots are triggered by now includes;

  • The Olympics
  • Bud Light
  • Football
  • Taylor Swift
  • M&Ms
  • Ice cream
  • Airline pilots
  • 18th century Colonial historical recreationists
  • Cats
  • Woman who laugh
  • The word “weird”

What am I missing?

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That’s it’s quicker to list the things they’re not triggered by.

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I’m sorry. I should have mentioned this. Greek god covered in fruited vines? Dionysus! I recognized him immediately. I couldn’t figure out why he was blue though. Then I read a statement from the artists behind the whole thing. They said he was blue to be like a Hindu deity.

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Nor was there any backlash for the Last Supper scene in Mel Brooks’ History of the World, Part I. And if there was, it wasn’t very loud:

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My very first thought when seeing the tableau was “Oh that’s Dionysus.” I never once thought of the Last Supper.

But some people just have to pretend they are being persecuted all the time.

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From Marla Francis on Facebook.

ETA I shared an editted version of the above quote when member of one the FB groups I belong to made a post about how offended she was. While many ‘liked’ my post, and I got a few ‘thanks for the explanation’ and a few ‘offended people gotta be offended’ mostly I got ‘You have been duped by their lies and support their degeneracy!’
sigh

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Art is Art.
It supposed to be a free expression.

You take what you want from it and go about your merry way and the next person can do the same.

When we start regulating what free expression is we may as well end it here and now.

Now, why was it immigrants ever wanted to come here to this new world?

Freedom.

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“I didn’t see what you are taking about but it must be mocking Christians!”

Funny how in another thread you were mocking younger people for supposedly not knowing history and yet you can’t tell the difference between a Greek bacchanalia and the Last Supper…

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The last time I remember France being in the news for someone over there mocking Islam was when a bunch of people were shot at Charlie Hebdo back in 2015.

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Hopefully this doesn’t run afoul of the new foreign language rule, not that translation is needed.