Quintana The Last Supper Analysis

The artwork “The last supper by Quintana” is a different point of view of and one of the many different versions of the original “the last supper by Leonardo Da Vinci” which was started in the year 1495 and finished in the year 1498. In the piece by Quintana she uses almost the same set up with the way she positions the twelve disciples of Jesus Christ the main difference in this one is that the all of the people are not white but African. This one of the first things someone may notice when first looking at this piece by Quintana. That is because people know the original and may not expect anything to change in a glance at it. The other differences is the colors use in making this one. In the original by Da Vinci he used warm colors like bright reds and orange to contras to the cooler blues and greens to make up the clothes of everyone which really makes them pop out from the browns in the background. Now on the other hand the Quintana uses more cool colors like purple and blues to separate them from the brown background but by using such dark colors it really brings the piece together. Something else different between the two is that they both highlight or
He uses lines to give three dimensional appearance making the room like much larger. With farther examination of the background walls you notice some similarities between the two opposite walls on the left and the right sides. Now all together looking at the whole room it seems to be symmetrical, from the placement of the fore rectangles which I assume are paintings within the painting and the squares in between them to the far back wall with three windows revealing what looks to a clear sky and green land. From the colors of the outside land it looks to be a calm cool day, maybe in the fall. Even looking at the ceiling of the room it shows what may be the wooded beams from the make of the