“The Final Meal”
Going to see The Last Supper: 700 Plates Illustrating Final Meals of U.S. Death Row Inmates was an amazing experience. This artwork is displayed in the Texas State art galleries on the second floor. Julia Green the artist put detail into each plate to display what foods inmates craved or refused to have right before being executed. These plates allowed you to take a guess on what race, religion, and culture these people where from without knowing who they were. Julia used different elements such as lighting, color use and shading, perspective, literal lines and many others to get her point across. You had to really focus and take your time when looking at her art because it is very simple and it can come off as nothing more than plates with images of food, but if you analyze them it is way more than that.
One of the first paintings I came across was a picture with tacos, donuts and a coke. Julia used rigid and curved lines to make sure we could see the plate. The plate was grayer and darker than the rest of the picture letting us know it had lower intensity. The tacos stood out because of the use of primary and secondary colors such as red for the tomatoes and green for the lettuce. Julia used literal lines so the painting was straightforward and we knew exactly …show more content…
Many plates had emblems on them and others seemed to be almost cracked. Julia mentioned on some of the wording on the wall this was because they were second hand plates which made sense. It went with the prison theme because nothing there is new, everything has been used and abused, and as far as the kitchen you never know what type of tray or material you would be eating off. And for it to be your last meal they probably gave inmates something “fancier” than the usual handy down plastic
Going to see The Last Supper: 700 Plates Illustrating Final Meals of U.S. Death Row Inmates was an amazing experience. This artwork is displayed in the Texas State art galleries on the second floor. Julia Green the artist put detail into each plate to display what foods inmates craved or refused to have right before being executed. These plates allowed you to take a guess on what race, religion, and culture these people where from without knowing who they were. Julia used different elements such as lighting, color use and shading, perspective, literal lines and many others to get her point across. You had to really focus and take your time when looking at her art because it is very simple and it can come off as nothing more than plates with images of food, but if you analyze them it is way more than that.
One of the first paintings I came across was a picture with tacos, donuts and a coke. Julia used rigid and curved lines to make sure we could see the plate. The plate was grayer and darker than the rest of the picture letting us know it had lower intensity. The tacos stood out because of the use of primary and secondary colors such as red for the tomatoes and green for the lettuce. Julia used literal lines so the painting was straightforward and we knew exactly …show more content…
Many plates had emblems on them and others seemed to be almost cracked. Julia mentioned on some of the wording on the wall this was because they were second hand plates which made sense. It went with the prison theme because nothing there is new, everything has been used and abused, and as far as the kitchen you never know what type of tray or material you would be eating off. And for it to be your last meal they probably gave inmates something “fancier” than the usual handy down plastic