L.H.O.O.Q


This is a postcard style painting done by famous Dada artist Marcel Duchamp. This work is considered a readymade. A readymade is when you take something that already exists and change its purpose, in this case by adding to it. Duchamp took the original Mona Lisa, painted by Leonardo Davinci and  added a mustache, and the acronym at the bottom L.H.O.O.Q. What makes this dada; which seems like a predecessor to surrealism and in this case pop art, is that it make you feel a certain way. At the time, in 1919, This probably angered or frustrated a lot of people because it seems to poke at a renown painting. Possible made people laugh as well. Another interesting part is its name. L.H.O.O.Q is meant to be said a the five separate letters in English, but, if you say it in french it sounds like the phrase "she has a nice ass" which I find hilarious and the exact point of Dadaism.

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