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The Last Supper

Mike Sleadd

Mike Sleadd

The Last Supper

Creation Date: 2022

Media: Ink applied with dip pen and feather on paper

Art Size: 21"x39"

Framed: 32.5"x51"

Frame Material: Brown wood

I enjoy not being completely serious with the content of my drawings. A baseball cap, a fez, a man looking at his iPhone, pizza, another watch. I am certain Leonardo would have given me a grimace. But I have created few artworks that don’t challenge the viewer to see the tears through the smiles and the smiles through the tears — both mine and one’s own.

This drawing depicts a tragedy in the guise of a comedy; a dramedy. There is humor, yes, but concentrate on the eyes of these figures. See their sadness, concern, frustration and fear. I observe this same angst in many eyes at the market, the cinema, everywhere, today.