The Last Supper recreated using 4,050 Rubik's Cubes

A team of artists in Toronto created this giant rendition of The Last Supper using over 4,000 Rubik's Cubes. Cube Works via Popped Cullture

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Anonymous

There’s a funny version of the Last Supper with Smurfs:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/xomiele/3924526225/
Anonymous

I’m surprised Invader didn’t get to this idea first.
Anonymous

To the reporter in that video: I know you probably think Canada is a strange and foreign place, but trust me, Da Vinci and Rubik’s Cubes is still a strange combo up here.
mikita

Wants to see the backside of this! Perhaps there’s something diabolical.
Anonymous

My friends used to make Rubik’s Cube art on a MUCH smaller scale. Each week at our game night for a while someone would bring in a new pattern, idea, or picture to make.
http://wiki.playagaingames.com/entertainment/rubiks_cube_art/
monstrinho_do_biscoito

bet they peeled the stickers off rather than solve each puzzle to show the correct colours.
simonbarsinister

4,050 is not a perfect square. They probably used 4,096 cubes. Just saying’

I’ll go count my steps and wash my hands 100 times now.
- endymion
  
  Why do you think the number of cubes needs to be a perfect square? That would be necessary if the height and width of the overall work were equal. But they aren’t.
  
  The number of cubes does need to be composite (not prime), however!
- simonbarsinister
  
  I’m guessing 45×90 or 75×54. Ok I’ll stop now.
Anonymous

Would Andy Warhol Appreciate this? goes great with the exhibition in Milwaukee of his last supper pieces.