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.


	Use of Rembrand as Ironing Board (Marcel Duchamp) Daniel Spoerri 1964 Chair, iron, printed canvas and wood table, 86 x 73 x 40 cm Milan, Collezione Schwarz


	L.H.O.O.Q., replica Marcel Duchamp 1964 (Neuilly) Pencil on a reproduction of Mona Lisa, 30.1 x 23 cm


	L.H.O.O.Q. shaved Marcel Duchamp about 1965 Readymade: reproduction of the Mona Lisa (playing card), mounted on diner invitation New York, Museum of Modern Art


	Picabia Mona Lisa Marcel Duchamp 1965 Collage, 35 x 25 cm Milan, Collection of Aruro Schwartz


	Mona Lisa Wiped Out William T. Wiley 1967 Wire, canvas, tape and photograph on paper,, 24 ½ x 17 1/8 in. Collection of the artist


	Figure 7 Jasper Johns 1968 Lithograph, 94.3 x 76.2 cm New York, Museum of Modern Art


	Figure 7 Jasper Johns 1969 Lithograph, printed in colour, 96.5 x 78.7 cm New York, Collection Mr. and Mrs. Victor W. Ganz


	Mammary Lisa Alfred Gescheidt 1972 Collage (?)


	George and Mona in the Baths of Coloma Robert Arneson 1976 Statue Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum


	Mao Lisa Leonardo Bezzola 1976 Collage (?)


	Gold Mona Lisa (2 times) Andy Warhol 1980 Silkscreen ink on synthetic polymer paint on canvas (?)


	The Chinese Erro 1980 130 x 136 cm


	Twelve White Mona Lisas Andy Warhol 1980 Silkscreen ink on synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 202.9 x 202.9 cm California, Beverly Hills, Collection Georges Marciano


	Pneumonia Lisa Robert Rauschenberg 1982 (Japanese Recreational Clay Work), High-fired ceramic, 32 ½ x 86 ½ in. Collection of the artist


	Racing Thoughts Jasper Johns 1983 Encaustic and collage on canvas, 121.9 x 190.8 cm New York, Whitney Museum of American Art


	Racing Thoughts Jasper Johns 1984 Oil on canvas, 127 x 190.5 cm Maryland, Phoenix, Collection Robert and Jane Meyerhoff


	Summer Jasper Johns 1985 Encaustic on canvas, 190.5 x 127 cm Collection Philip Johnson


	Summer Jasper Johns 1987 Eight colour intaglio, edition of 73, 66 x 48 cm Pennsylvania, Fort Washington


	Apocalypse 7 Keith Haring 1988 Silkscreen, 96.5 x 96.5 cm


	Mona Lisa Sophie Matisse 1997 Oil on panel, 30 ½ x 21 in.

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