Representations Of The Mona Lisa, By Marcels Duchamp And Orlan

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Orlan is a French artist born in 1947, for her art works vary from sculptures, photographs, performances, videos, and videogames, augmented reality, using scientific and medical technics like operations and biogenetic. Orlan uses her body as the raw material for her artworks she considered it to ready made much like Marcels Duchamp’s Mona Lisa was. Her first facial surgical art work entailed self- transformation in mind, although it was not for the perspective of making her more attractive to the opposite gender by example having a face lift, no but by analyzing and deconstructing mythological images of women who portrayed feminine beauty. Orlan looked at the taking pieces from well-known Renaissance and post- Renaissance representations of …show more content…

Marcel Duchamp was born in Normandy in northern France 1887; he traveled a lot. Marcel Duchamp used the Mona Lisa to create a famous rendition of her that falls under pastiche and parody as he took a reproduction of the Mona Lisa and used her to make another artwork through the addition of adding in a penciled in of a mustache and a goatee to it therefore introducing the masculinized female, this brings forth the theme of gender reversal. Marcel Duchamp was part of the Dada movement which really had a noticeable effect on postmodernism in its enquiring of authenticity and originality. As well as with the concept of appropriation, postmodernism often took the undermining of originality to the extent of copyright violation, even in the use of photos that have minor to having no change to the original as possible. Remake, this entails the literal reconstructing of the style , and parody is where by things are made or added to in order to make something that is serious and structured comical out of it although it stays true to the plot or a character or it. Many say that parody is one of the crucial strategies of the postmodern …show more content…

The artwork is no other than Leonardo Da Vinci's one of a kind Mona Lisa that took him 13 years to complete her. The social media app that I choose what snapchat which many people on today's society use to communicate what they feel or doing through a conversation of selfies that can have filters on and pictures. Snapchat was created in 2011. The art work that I have made using both of these is postmodern as I have taken some thing that is from the past and changed it to make it

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