'The Last Supper' (pink) by Andy Warhol

This autumn, De Nieuwe Kerk’s Masterpiece series (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) will feature a work by Andy Warhol. From 6 October to 11 November 2012, De Nieuwe Kerk Amsterdam will be exhibiting his religious and spiritual masterpiece The Last Supper (pink), from 1986. At the end of his life, Warhol (1928–1987) made a series of works on this theme, which many experts regard as his most important achievement.
 
The Last Supper is one of the best loved subjects in art. The most famous painting of the Last Supper is Leonardo da Vinci's monumental fresco in Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan, which depicts Christ and his Apostles at the Passover mealD. Warhol’s source of inspiration was the monumental fresco by Leonardo da Vinci (1498) in the Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, possibly the most famous of all representations of this subject.

In this work, Warhol juxtaposed two versions of the famous fresco in order to give the figures a different emotional charge. His choice of the colour pink may have been inspired by its associations with babies, vitality, and life. The figures are black, invoking connotations of death, especially that of Jesus, whose death in turn represents eternal life. Life and death are closely intertwined. With this work, Warhol professed his veneration for Da Vinci’s masterpiece, and provided a new way of looking at it.

Dates: from October 6 to November 11.
Location: De Nieuwe Kerk Amsterdam. Dam Square, Amsterdam. The Netherlands.
Opening hours: from Monday to Sunday from 10am to 5pm.