Everything about her posture speaks reservation and silence. He modifies the formula however, creating a sense of distance between the sitter and observer, mostly utilizing the arm chair on which she rests. The form of the painting itself is very simple, a modification of the Seated Madonna, a form very popular during the 15th and 16th centuries for portraits.
His lighting is important as he uses it to create many of the geometric shapes – circles and spheres – that compose the painting. The fold of her hands forms the front of the pyramid and he uses the same glowing light for her breast, neck and face.
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Many more retooled images of Mona Lisa, including one with a cracked visage, are galore in the fast-changing world of kitsch art.Leonardo places his model in the midst of the painting, using a pyramid design to center her. The Mona Lisa accessory range was created by the US-based art merchandising store Cafe Press in 1999. The motif appears on a variety of kitsch art accessories like the stainless water bottle, boxer briefs, women's panties, pet bowl, T-shirts and jackets and mugs - sought after by the arty-types. Two rather funny versions of Mona Lisa are also the themes of a range of cheeky geek art known as "Mona Lisa with Gun" and "Mona Lisa with Bichon Frise" (a small furry pet dog), where the lady is shown holding a small automatic gun and a dog. He said he drew it on the spur of the moment. The nail gun artist, as the builder described himself, denied "any pre-nail impression of Mona Lisa". The "Nail Gun Mona Lisa", created with more than 500 nails, was an instant hit, setting off a debate on whether it was feasible to capture the lady with a nail.Ī section of Mona Lisa buffs said "the artist had drawn a computer profile of Mona Lisa on the canvas so that he could target his nails in place." In 2010, a builder posted a three-minute capsule of how he etched a silhouette of Mona Lisa on a canvas at his construction site with his semi-automatic nail gun - a construction device shaped like a gun which shoots nails at wooden planks to board them together. Now, imagine Mona Lisa profiled in nails. The graphically-generated computer image of Mona Lisa was detailed given the fact that it was painted with a new computer app (application) known as Brushes, a natural media painting tool for iPhones and iPads using touchscreen technology.īrushes has given birth to a new genre of digital artistic sub-culture with art galleries devoted to it on the internet. In 2007, a bunch of computer geeks made a splash on the internet with their "Mona Lisa in MS or Microsoft paint". It is symbolic of the highly-evolved impressionism in classical European art and any artistic comment on it is always exciting," Sunaina Anand, of the Delhi-based Art Alive Gallery, told IANS. "It is interesting to see a different perspective of Mona Lisa by a new contemporary artist. The 45-year-old Indian artist is known for his reality compositions, stainless steel kitchen utensil sculptures, photography, video and performance art.
For Gupta, the sculpture is the beginning of a "new dialogue with renaissance classical masterpieces in the modern context". He said he "liked the humour" in the geeky interpretation of Mona Lisa. Gupta said he first saw Duchamp's "Mona Lisa" at the Tate Modern in 2008.