Friday, March 1, 2013

L.H.O.O.Q. by Marcel Duchamp (1919)

L.H.O.O.Q. by Marcel Duchamp (1919)
Not much introduction needs to be made for Monalisa, but just for the sake of fact; it was executed by Leonardo Da Vinci back in between 1503 and 1506.
In our coincidence, we are depicting a very avant-garde version of Monalisa. With a difference of 400 years, you have the spur of Dadaism as an international literature and artistic movement, which mainly pioneered in between 1915-1923. The name infers that the Dadaistic artists used coincidence principles in the creation process.
One of the blatant examples of that was the “re-creation” of the Monalisa with a moustache and a disrespectful comment to her enigmatic smile saying: She has a hot ass.
He is not alone in making this act to this art, but his provocation was not created absurdly. Some claim that it was merely a try for Duchamp to tell other artists that he has the upper-hand when it comes to art, and he famously victory of the game of chess.
On the other hand, it is depicted as a Freudian joke for other interpreters. Freud at his analyzed the painting, and inferred that the reason why the painting was never completed was his sexual life playing a role.



Basically what both Freud and Duchamp was trying to say was that Monalisa is actually a secretly depicted man, which is an attempt to take the painting from massive mainstream dull attractiveness to what it really is, a mere painting of Monalisa.
I personally believe that it goes back to the how Duchamp is outsmarting every other artist of his time with simplicity.





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