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LHOOQ is a work of art from 1919 to Marcel Duchamp's parody of of Leonardo da Vinci. Its title is both a homophone of the word English style Description

This is a simple postcard (19.7 size 12.4 cm) reproducing the Mona Lisa. Duchamp was overloaded with a mustache , a goatee and letters that give the title to the work.

The fact that it is a mere reproduction of the Mona Lisa is disputed by Rhonda R. Shearer, who sees an adaptation to Duchamp's own face .

Aesthetics

LHOOQ part in the course of readymades that the artist has created and participated in the artist's wish to question the art.

The work had first been conducted privately, Francis Picabia realized in 1920 in a reproduction of thumb for its magazine 391, forgetting to draw the goat . He talks to him a combination of ready-made and " Dada iconoclasm " . The work is indeed contemporaneous with the onset of the implementation of the Dada movement in Paris in which Picabia made manifest. Marcel Duchamp already recognized at that time shows that by simply "scribbling" is a postcard of the complete works. The side Dadaist , comes mainly from the desecration of the Mona Lisa , insulted (she was hot in the ass) and painted, not to mention the humor characteristic of dadates of puns.

Marcel Duchamp's gesture can be understood in relation to the publication in 1910 of the test A childhood memory of Leonardo da Vinci in which Sigmund Freud speaks of the inability of the artist to finish his work, the sublimation of life in art and especially of his homosexuality.

In addition, according to certain theories, the model of the Mona Lisa had actually been a man. In general, the ambiguity between the masculine and feminine gender is typical of Leonardo da Vinci Museography

It is today owned by the French Communist Party , which was placed on deposit for 99 years at the National Centre for Art and Culture Georges Pompidou . It was donated to the PCF by the poet Louis Aragon , who had received a gift of Duchamp himself. It was given to the Royal Academy of Arts in 2002 .

History

Illustration of Laughter.

For the exhibition of arts Incoherents in 1883, Eugne Bataille (Sapeck) performs Mona Lisa smoking a pipe which indirectly foreshadows the work of Marcel Duchamp in 1919.

References

  1. Dalia Judovitz, Unfold Duchamp: Passages de l'Art, trans. Annick Delahque and Frederick Joseph, University Press of the North , al. "Paintings", Villeneuve d'Ascq, 2000, 247 p. ( ISBN 2-85939-610-1 ), p. 134.
  2. Marco de Martino, " Mona Lisa: Who is Hidden Behind the Woman With The Mustache? ", trans. Camillo Olivetti, Art Science Research Laboratory, 2003.
  3. Manou Farine, " Jean-Hubert Martin: "In Paris, I wanted to stay in the mind dada" , " The Eye , No. 601, April 2008.
  4. Duchamp du Signe, Flammarion, 1994, p. 227.
  5. Sylvia Zappi, " Financially battered, the PCF is evaluating the works of art from his seat , " Le Monde , June 3, 2007.
  6. Maurice Ulrich, " LHOOQ in London , " L'Humanite , 25 January 2002.


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