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One form of computerized parody using the Internet juxtaposes layers over the original, on a webpage. In one example, the original layer is Mona Lisa. The second layer is transparent in the main, but is opaque and obscures the original layer in some places (for example, where Duchamp located the moustache).
L.H.O.O.Q. or La Joconde. Marcel Duchamp (French, 1887-1968) In 1919, Duchamp performed a seemingly adolescent prank using a postcard that represented the ideal of feminine beauty, Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa. He drew a mustache and goatee on her face and added the letters "L.H.O.O.Q."
Dec 15, 2021 · Well, Marcel Duchamp, the father of the Dada movement, did the same on a postcard of Leonardo da Vinci‘s Mona Lisa. Yet, this time, it was not just an ‘immature prank’ but turned out to be a work of art.
L.H.O.O.Q. Rasée (L.H.O.O.Q. Shaved) Mona Lisa Playing Card. Date: 1965. Artists: Marcel Duchamp (American (born France), 1887–1968) Reproduction after Leonardo da Vinci (Italian (active Florence, Milan, Mantua, Rome, and France), 1452–1519) Medium: Readymade: playing card with color reproduction (offset lithograph) of Leonardo da Vinci's ...
In L.H.O.O.Q. the objet trouvé ("found object") is a cheap postcard reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa onto which Duchamp drew a moustache and beard in pencil and appended the title.
Pencilling a mustache and goatee over a reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci’s revered masterpiece, the Mona Lisa, Duchamp’s desecration of the Renaissance work is considered the ultimate gesture of iconoclasm—symbolically and effectively terminating the modern era’s attachment to the conservative aesthetic of the past.
How we identified these works. In 2018–19, MoMA collaborated with Google Arts & Culture Lab on a project using machine learning to identify artworks in installation photos. That project has concluded, and works are now being identified by MoMA staff.
From Art Resource, Marcel Duchamp, L.H.O.O.Q. Mona Lisa (1919), Retouched readymade (reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa with added moustache and…
One of the most recognizable and influential works within his oeuvre, Duchamp returned to the Mona Lisa as the subject for seven distinct iterations of L.H.O.O.Q. throughout his life.
