Mona Lisa's eyes may not be the only things following you around the room.
Marcel Duchamp's version of Mona Lisa is a prime example of the Dada spirit.
Even a Nureyev bowler would not have been enough to keep Mona Lisa amused.
And in the winter of 1963, few subjects were more popular than the touring Mona Lisa.
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The Mona Lisa would be completely unwelcome in the lobby of a Shariah-Compliant Motel 6.
Everyone was crowded around the Mona Lisa, and there was a large glass box around the piece.
The Mona Lisa, small and stained green, her plucked eyebrows raised quizzically at the crowds who came to admire her.
By the Pakistan Tourist Office is the Mona Lisa restaurant, with an extensive menu including Chinese and Italian food.
"Chinese Girl" sometimes is called the "Mona Lisa of kitsch, " angering Tretchikoff who insisted he was a serious artist.
If you know how to handle men hitting on you, you too can graduate from Office HOPA to Office Mona Lisa.
For centuries art lovers have pondered the mystery of Mona Lisa's smile.
Remember that you are not creating the Mona Lisa in an afternoon.
What's often forgotten is that the public has a role in art history, whether it's the Mona Lisa or this piece, 'Levitated Mass.
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Mr. MILTON CAMPBELL (Blues Artist): (Singing) If I don't love you, baby, grits ain't grocery, eggs ain't poultry and Mona Lisa was a man.
In Thirty Are Better Than One, the Mona Lisa is reduced to a pattern, like paisley or toile de jouy: perfectly flat, potentially infinite.
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The guide advised us to focus most on the san bao the three treasures the Winged Victory of Samothrace, the Venus de Milo, and the Mona Lisa.
Even in death, it would seem, the woman who helped give the world the Mona Lisa was recognised as having something very special about her.
In the first few months of 1963, the Mona Lisa was seen by nearly two million people in New York and Washington DC.
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Like Leonardo da Vinci -- whose famous Mona Lisa is housed in the Louvre -- VINCI also has an installation in the reputed Paris art gallery.
Leonardo Da Vinci also did not invent the Mona Lisa.
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The enigmatic "Mona Lisa" countenance was digitized and traveled via laser almost 240, 000 miles from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
She added that many of the thieves were getting into the museum, which is home to the Mona Lisa, for free and would return even after being questioned by police.
Most museums function as time storage, with big shelves where we store civilizations' accomplishments oh, here's the Temple of Dendur, there's the Mona Lisa so it's difficult to indulge in social media.
Da Vinci was a whiz as a painter (hint: "Mona Lisa" and "The Last Supper"), a scientist and engineer, and a futurist dead-set on fighting the gravitational pull of his own times.
Warhol gave Marilyn Monroe the same treatment, screening her face repeatedly from edge to edge of his canvas, yet his repetitions of the Mona Lisa were the most provocative expression of his disquieting vision.
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If all of that sounds a bit worthy, click on the play section of the site to make the Mona Lisa smile, or combine different animal parts to create a chimera in the style of da Vinci's more fanciful monsters.
Thirty Are Better Than One is not really about the Mona Lisa or even about art, but rather concerns the tortuous relationship between culture and media, a relationship beginning to play out in his own life as he became the first meta-celebrity.
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The scientists who were lucky enough to get close to the Mona Lisa for this work did not have far to travel, as they work in the Centre for Research and Restoration of Museums of France a subterranean laboratory that lies beneath the Louvre.
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