At which point, you could say, the Mona Lisa became public property, a legitimate target for both satire and idolatry. In 1919, Marcel Duchamp drew a moustache on a print of the painting.
Though time has aged and darkened her complexion, Mona Lisa continues to cast her spell. Even centuries later, although avant-garde artists like Duchamp and Dali ridiculed her image, they were ...
More than a century ago, the Mona Lisa was stolen from its famed Paris museum, Louvre, and recovered shortly after. Many ...
But such content, such expression. Think of dadaist Marcel Duchamp scrawling a curlicue mustache on the “Mona Lisa.” Think of John Waters putting a mustache on himself, making himself an ...
Even though his Fountain became the most (in)famous and controversial piece of art, many have come to know Duchamp for the ...
Villa Mona Lisa, a 15-bedroom private villa on 67 acres of Tuscan vineyards, was the family home of Lisa Gherardini aka Mona ...
Mona Lisa has been displayed in the Salle des États in the Louvre since 2005 She's one of the world's most recognisable faces, with a smile that's been printed on mugs, bags and T-shirts across ...
For “Unity Totem,” a new work commissioned for this exhibit, Azoulay mined the Jewish Museum’s collection for ritual objects ...
In one of his pictures, Duchamp scribbled a beard and moustache on to a photograph of Leonardo da Vinci’s famous painting the Mona Lisa. Do you sometimes like to scribble silly beards and moustaches ...
Dadaism was the forerunner of Surrealism, and its most famous artist Salvador Dali parodied both Da Vinci and Duchamp by morphing himself into a moustachioed Mona Lisa, as a photographic self ...
PARIS — Mad for 18th-century interiors, Karl Lagerfeld frequently visited the Louvre, knew its holdings by heart, and drew inspiration from its sumptuous furniture and lacquered screens. In January, ...
The rich oeuvre of Ralph Steadman is celebrated in "And Another Thing," which arrays more than 140 objects from the ...