MONA LISA as MOderN LISA

Modernist artists fought against everything old and so Mona Lisa as the representative of 'the Classic' became the object of hatred and despise. An image that should be desacralized (torn, drawn on it, erased ...).

In 1919, at the peak of Dadaism, they tried to destroy a lot of ‘old things’ but most of all, they wanted to change the old patterns of thinking and Mona Lisa was the first victim. In the year 1919 on the 400th anniversary of Leonardo’s death, Duchamp took a reproduction of Leonardo's Mona Lisa added in pencil a moustache and gave it the title pronounced in French: Elle a chaud au cul (She has a hot arse).

Post-modernism has through Warhol put her beside Marilyn Monroe and Mao, the icons of the modern time - the modern saints. Today, she can be even found in the 'notorious art' of today - advertising.


	Composition with Mona Lisa Kazimir Malevich 1914 Oil, collage and graphite on canvas, 62 x 49.5 cm St Petersburg, Russian Museum


	L.H.O.O.Q., readymade Marcel Duchamp 1919 Pencil on a reproduction of Mona Lisa, 19.7 x 12.4 cm Original: New York, Mary Sisler Collection


	Reproduction of L.H.O.O.Q. François Picabia 1920, March Cover of Picabia’s magazine 391 (vol.3, no. 12)


	Duchamp as Rrose Selavy Marcel Duchamp & Man Ray (photo) 1921 (New York) Sepia tonned print, 15 x 11 cm France, Alexina Duchamp Collection


	Duchamp as Rrose Selavy Marcel Duchamp & Man Ray (photo) 1921 (Paris) Gelatin Silver Print, 21.9 x 17.4 cm Philadelphia, Museum of Art


	L.H.O.O.Q., replica Marcel Duchamp 1930 Pencil on a reproduction of Mona Lisa, 64.7 x 48.2 cm Private collection


	Mona Lisa with the Keys Fernand Leger 1930 Oil on canvas, 91 x 27 cm Biot, Musee National Fernand Leger


	Picabia Mona Lisa Marcel Duchamp 1942, April Pencil on reproduction This item was lost now (it was part of Arp Collection)


	Self Portrait as Mona Lisa Salvador Dali about 1954 photo: Philipe Halsman


	The other Side of the Painting Marcel Duchamp about 1955 Rectified readymade, 73 x 48 cm Milan, Collezioni Angelo Calmarini


	American Projects Erro 1958 Collage, 32 x 25 cm


	Mona Lisa Robert Rauschenberg 1958 Ink, pencil and aquarelle on paper, 581 x 730cm


	Mona Lisa, Age Twelve Fernando Botero 1959 Oil (?) New York, Museum of Modern Art


	La Gioconda Renè Magritte 1960 Oil on canvas, 70 x 50 cm Private collection


	We do not Ear it that Way 1960, May Leaflet of surrealist group Paris, Centre Pompidou, Archives MNAM


	Double Mona Lisa Andy Warhol 1963 Silkscreen ink on canvas, 72.4 x 94.3 cm Houston, Menil Collection


	Four Mona Lisas Andy Warhol 1963 Silkscreen ink on synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 112 x 74 cm New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art


	Mona Lisa Andy Warhol 1963 Silkscreen ink on synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 319.4 x 208.6 cm New York, Courtesy Blum Helman Gallery


	Mona Lisa Fernando Botero 1963 Oil on canvas, 183 x 166 cm Washington, Art Museum of the Americas


	Thirty Are Better Than One Andy Warhol 1963 Silkscreen ink on synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 279.4 x 240 cm Private collection

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