Shaike Snir 'Mother Earth' mid century modernism and the Museum of Contemporary

and the Museum of Contemporary Art

This is the kind of image that with you long after leaving its presence

A creative to his core

Image Size: 14 x 10 cm

Louise TOMLINSON (1964 - )

Shaike Snir 'Mother Earth' mid century modernism and the Museum of ContemporaryThis work is a play on Marcel Duchamps famous work L. H. O. O. Q, which itself is a play on Leonardo DaVincis Mona Lisa. In his remix, Duhamp drew a moustache on a cheap postcard of the Mona Lisa. This was an example of the readymade an art genre which sees an artist reorientate a mundane, mass produced object as fine art. The mediums roguish sensibility is reiterated by Duchamps title. When pronounced in French, L. H. O. O. Q sounds like a vulgar