Mona Lisa with a mustache sold over half a million dollars

[SergeiSK]

One of the most famous paintings of world art, Mona Lisa (La Gioconda) by Leonardo da Vinci, with a penciled mustache and goatee considered an icon of pop art, and sold at auction at Christie's in New York for nearly half a million dollars, five times more expensive than the expectations of the organizers of the auction.
Mustache and goatee on the most common printing paper copies of textbook masterpieces scribbled in pencil are not naughty schoolboy, and the French artist Marcel Duchamp, nisprovergatel classical canons and one of the founders of conceptualism.
In 1964 he produced 38 such moustached Mona Lisa at auction in New York was exposed to a copy number 21. Connoisseur of life and work of Leonardo as a great and shocking Duchamp saw it as a mustached Mona Lisa sensational at the time hints of the Freudian sense.
Abbreviation, which are equipped with all 38 masterpieces Duchamp, only adds spice to art of "reading" the classics. Over the years, the artist himself in translating coded quotations in English and gave it more acceptable to the public sound, according to RIA Novosti.
"This is one of the greatest icons of XX century and a joke, of course. But the joke has given direction to many masters of pop art, as Warhol, Lichtenstein, Prince ... All of them were for Duchamp "- said vice-president of trading house Brett Gorvi.
(RIA Novosti)

[Konstantin]

That is after all!

In the photo essay with 28 salons, I wrote about one Gioconda on it.

Mona Lisa (La Gioconda) - NH
19 century pastel - 6 is $ gallery Bulgakov on the third floor

And I was still criticized what they say about this nonsense ...
But need something just was pririsovat mustache and beard.
And half a million in your pocket .

[Posav]

It's not just "pririsoval, it kontsEpt, philosophy.

[sergejnowo]

Сообщение от Posav

It's not just "pririsoval, it kontsEpt, philosophy.

fact, but for how long?

[Игорь Гурьев]

In general, in Russian is written Marcel Duchamp.

[Кирилл Сызранский]

Igor Sasha, you would be transferred to the signature of Duchamp

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[Posav]

Сообщение от sergejnowo

fact, but for how long?

Since 1913 and until now.

"Already in 1913, when the Armory Show was held, twenty-five Duchamp felt exhausted the possibilities of painting. The result is a concept product« ready-made »(redimeydov) - finished product (the term originated from commercial advertising), who became famous Marcel Duchamp, who consisted in the fact that any ordinary object, chosen from among themselves, or group of items, signed and exhibited artist, can be called a work of art. "Finished products" Duchamp - a snow scraper, a rack for hats, for drying bottles and bicycle wheel - were challenge what he considered pompous and vain traditional art. "

[artcol]

Сообщение от sergejnowo

fact, but for how long?

Duchamp largest contribution to the development of art (or its destruction) - analog Malevich.

[sergejnowo]

artcol, but no, it's understandable, just not the same and not another for me is not an artist in the literal sense.

[artcol]

Сообщение от sergejnowo

artcol, but no, it's understandable, just not the same and not another for me is not an artist in the literal sense.

Well Malevich nevertheless a serious impact on the painting had on Soviet artists way (it even excluding direct imitators). Malevich was searching for ways to upgrade painting, but Duchamp - yes, never a painter. First conceptualist. And given the influence of his ideas on the Western avant-garde in the sum of half a million dollorov seems very modest.