This week in the Fine Arts Workshop, our group had to find convergences (i.e. patterns) in art. We had to select one photograph and one piece of art that follow similar visual patterns. Different tastes often lead to different ideas, however; the three of us found different patterns that appealed to us. Interestingly enough, without consulting each other, we all chose pieces of art with a religious context. Their views can be seen on their respective blogs. Carly found a portrait of a younger mother and her two year old son and compared it to Fra Fillipo Lippi's rendition of the Virgin Mother and Christ child. (www.justapipe.blogspot.com). Julia compared a portrait of an old beggar woman with Donatello's withered statue of Mary Magdalene. (www.signonthewall.blogspot.com).
Being a fiend for Vanity Fair portraits, I chose an Annie Lebovitz frontgate portrait from a couple of years ago of Hollywood's rising stars and compared it to Leonardo Di Vinci's Last Supper. Linearly, the subjects of the two pieces follow the same horizontal plane and the arrangements of the subjects of the photograph mirror those of Jesus' disciples.
Annie Lebovitz's "Splendor on the Grass" - Vanity Fair April 2000
Leonardo Di Vinci's The Last Supper 1495-1498
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