Devorah Sperber's After The Last Supper

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After the last supper was made by Devorah Sperber. The art work was made in the year of 2005 and was placed in a museum in The United States, New York City. The art work was an Inspiration of Leonardo da Vinci of his artwork The last supper. The artwork that is made by Dvorah Sperber, was made with 20,736 pins of thread that are attached to an aluminum ball chain. Ironically, our eyes and our brains conceive and read things just like what Devorah Sperber is trying to show us. When we, humans, see things, for instance a table, we see it upside down and in reverse. So, the point and idea of Devorah Sperber is to mimic God’s construction of the human eye in order to see. We actually see and that is seeing upside down and in reverse.
When a person looks into the optical utility that looks very close to a magnification glass, he or she will be able to see the image in a clear and straight way which is not upside down. When a person sees it with the bare eye, the pins of thread seem as an abstract preparation of different colored and 3 dimensional. The art work is more abstracted by the point that The Last Supper artwork is upside down and backward. The vibrant acrylic observing ranges revolve the artwork at 180 degrees in return to the right configuration and shorten the separate pixels and pins of
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The special painting is extremely proportioned, with the right eye of the Christ figure as the single, focused disappearing point, from which all compositional basics commence. In my analysis, the disappearing point, which is also Christ's right eye, is vaguely lower than eye level. That is because the spheres rotate the artwork at 180 degrees, the audience have the illusion of seeing the image while looking upwards and the redoing part of the alignment makes the audience see the artwork the way it is suppose to be

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