Wednesday, March 7, 2018

Toshio Matsumoto - Mona Lisa (1973)


Toshio Matsumoto used an electric image synthesiser, generating psychedelic colour effects. Anticipating the travel to Japan of Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece in 1974, Matsumoto refers to the multiple reinterpretations and copies of the Mona Lisa throughout the history of art, notably those by Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol.

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