Mona Lisa

I posted a while back that it seems like every week a new discovery is made about historically significant pieces of art, whether it be restoring, x-rays, or under coverings. Mona Lisa gets a new perspective...

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Mona Lisa Remix by Graphic Nothing

Mona Lisa Remix by Graphic Nothing

Mona Lisa Remix by Graphic Nothing
from Some Prints

Leonardo da Vinci's 'The Mona Lisa' reduced and remixed down into 140 exact circles of color. A picture about the illusion of familiarity. Makes little sense close up. Makes every sense from the other side of the room. (Inspired by the thumbnails on the Louvre website - Sept 2009)

Grafitti Mustache

Designs We've Seen (a lot) Series: 04/20/11
Graffiti Mustache

More like graffiti we've seen a lot...

We love to draw goatees and mustaches on faces. We are ususally blindly "defacing" photos for fun, but Marcel Duchamp was trying to make an artisitc statement by "re-facing" the Mona Lisa in his work "L.H.O.O.Q."

Marcel Duchamp, Mona Lisa parody "LHOOQ" (1919), post card reproduction with added moustache, goatee and title in pencil (19.7 x 12.4 cm)

Da Vinci in the News

Da Vinci in the News

Every week on my news feed there seems to be a new secret discovery behind Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper" or "Mona Lisa." I guess anything to keep art in the headlines...