Alright. I know I won't reach all of you with this post, but I can't help but think this is super funny. Alright, this is a piece by Marcel Duchamp; he was one of the first real modernist type artists and he was a bit of a smartass. Now at the time, (and still true today) the Mona Lisa was a huge deal. It's an icon for art and a piece that honestly almost everyone could recognize. Alright, now at the time when Duchamp made this piece, 1919, there was all this hype about the Mona Lisa because it had been stolen a few years earlier and it took an entire year for it to resurface. Now that it's back, people are once again obsessed with it.. and it's bigger than ever. Alright so Duchamp draws a mustache and goatee on this postcard of the Mona Lisa that he buys at the Lourve and entitles it "L.H.O.O.Q." which when pronounced in French sounds like the phrase "Elle a chaud au cul" which means, roughly, "she has a hot ass." So basically he was poking fun at this major icon for art, and calling it art. Hilarious. Alright nerdy contemporary art history fact of the day over.
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Alright. I know I won't reach all of you with this post, but I can't help but think this is super funny. Alright, this is a piece by Marcel Duchamp; he was one of the first real modernist type artists and he was a bit of a smartass. Now at the time, (and still true today) the Mona Lisa was a huge deal. It's an icon for art and a piece that honestly almost everyone could recognize. Alright, now at the time when Duchamp made this piece, 1919, there was all this hype about the Mona Lisa because it had been stolen a few years earlier and it took an entire year for it to resurface. Now that it's back, people are once again obsessed with it.. and it's bigger than ever. Alright so Duchamp draws a mustache and goatee on this postcard of the Mona Lisa that he buys at the Lourve and entitles it "L.H.O.O.Q." which when pronounced in French sounds like the phrase "Elle a chaud au cul" which means, roughly, "she has a hot ass." So basically he was poking fun at this major icon for art, and calling it art. Hilarious. Alright nerdy contemporary art history fact of the day over.
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hahahahaa. i really like this Duchamp guy. he definitely has an awesome sense of humor. mona lisa definitely has a hot ass. who can deny that fact?
ReplyDeletewhoa. that just blew my mind.
ReplyDeletehaha yes. everyone knows mona's got a fine booty.
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