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.


	Mona Lisa in its Origin Yasumasa Morimura 1998 Digital image on canvas, 290 x 200 cm New York, Galleria Luhring Augustine, Courtesy of the artist


	Mona Lisa in Pregnancy Yasumasa Morimura 1998 Digital image on canvas, 290 x 200 cm New York, Galleria Luhring Augustine, Courtesy of the artist


	Mona Lisa in the Third Place Yasumasa Morimura 1998 Digital image on canvas, 290 x 200 cm New York, Galleria Luhring Augustine, Courtesy of the artist


	Resting Model Miran Fukuda 1999 (?)


	Gioconda 2001 David Teixidor Buenaventura 2001 Digitally created image Courtesy of the artist


	Mona Lisa Jean Michel Basquiat n/a Canvas

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