Your eyes are bigger than your Last Suppers, at least
according to a study of 52 of the most famous paintings of the Last Supper painted between 1000 and 2000.
“The last thousand years have witnessed dramatic increases in the production, availability, safety, abundance and affordability of food,” said Brian Wansink, a professor of marketing and applied economics at Cornell University in New York.
“We think that as art imitates life, these changes have been reflected in paintings of history’s most famous dinner.”
Over a thousand years, the size of the main dish progressively grew by 69.2%, plate size by 65.6% and bread size by 23.1%, they found.
No doubt they were looking at my
collection of pop culture Last Supper parodies which are rife with fast food and mascots for restaurant and sugar cereals. We are what we worship.
Above: The Fast Supper by Sam Carter. "To me this has nothing to do with Christianity, it's more about the Religion of Fast Food. I felt that these commercial icons were my disciples." I've eaten at that religion.
Previously on Popped Culture...Suddenly Last SupperInsane Clown Last SupperMuppets Last Supper
Meet the Fast Food Mafia: Ron 'The Don' McDonald, 'The Colonel' Sanders, "Little" Caesar, 'Wendy' Gwendolen, B.K. 'The King'. You could almost envision it if health concerns drove junk food underground. Anytime you prohibit something, it creates a black market. From pop artist Andrew Shirey. (Link via The Daily What)
Now it turns out that yesterday was National Junk Food Day and I missed it. Lucky for me I ended up celebrating it anyhow. But Listicles was paying attention and pulled together 20 Pieces of Junk Food Art. These are a couple of my favourites.
Fast Food Kills, from pop artist Steven Smith
Junk Food Vertumnus from Andy Council. I guess you are what you eat. Shudder.
