MONA LISAS #3.

Mona Lisa by Salai, Leonardo da Vinci's pupil, model and probably lover. It was Salai who was named in Leonardo’s will to inherit the original painting, which he kept until the day he died.


Transport for London employee Kim being creative on a service information poster at Caledonian road tube station in London.


Moving from London trains to Osaka, Japan, trains, which is what the workers for Takashimaya department store use to get to work in the mornings. 300 of the workers used 320,000 of their train tickets to create this Mona Lisa.


In October 2009, artist Katy Webster created the world's biggest Mona Lisa at the Eagles Meadow shopping centre in Wrexham. Very shortly afterwards she was beaten by the Shanghai Expo. Don’t you just hate it when that happens?
I bet Katy kicked herself and said “Why didn’t I do the last supper, or Sunflowers?” Anyway Katy, you are still British and European Champion.


Groovy cleaver clogs Chris Naylor created an environmentally-friendly Mona Lisa in a back garden (not his), using B&Q tools. This was to promote B&Q's Brighten Up Britain campaign.
He probably had to take them back afterwards, because they had all broken.


Mona Lisa in Lego by Eric Harshbarger. Still playing with toys Eric? You need to get out more.


Mona Lisa in a dirty car windscreen by Scott Wade, of San Marcos, Texas.


Mona Lisa. A pastiche by Raphael of the newly painted picture.

Can you imagine the conversation?

“Lenny, I love the Fibonacci thing going on, oh....and those hands. I gotta get this down.”


Mona Lisa with a rocket launcher by Banksy. You can buy this on an A3 Canvas by Red Rat (?) from Amazon for the give away price of £22.99 plus p&p.
How’s that for art, imitating art, imitating art?

MONA LISAS #2.

Mona Lisa. How it would have looked when the paint had dried and Leonardo took a step back to admire it. It was over varnished in the 16th century and had a dodgy restoration in 1809.


Mona Lisa illusion. Stare at the image for two minutes, then close your eyes and the painting will appear in your head.


Fibonacci Mona. It's as easy as 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841


Inner City Mona. Artist unknown.


The Mona Lisa given the domino effect.


The Mona Lisa background mystery. The background of the painting is off. It doesn't match up. However if the painting is rolled back edge to edge, as you can see....it matches. Perhaps it's a Da Vinci code?

MONA LISAS #1.

"The Isleworth Mona Lisa" The most famous "other" Mona Lisa. Possibly painted, at least in part, by Leonardo da Vinci. Insufficiently examined, but it seems to have been painted in the early 16th century. It depicts the same model at a younger age than the more famous image. The painting is larger than the one hanging in the Louvre, and the subject takes up a smaller percentage of the overall canvas space. The clothes and hands appear to be the same. Over the years there has always been some doubt as to whether La Gioconda and the Mona Lisa are two paintings , or one.


"Mona Lisa" by David Griebeling made from 800 Rubic cubes


"Mona Lisa" by Andy Warhol 1963. Warhol produced the Mona Lisa in response to its exhibition in the United States at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.


"Mona and the Metal Men" by Mark Bryan 2006.


"The Last Mona" by Dolk. Stenciled in Bergen, Norway.


"Mocha Lisa" created by 8 volunteers, using 3,604 cups of coffee, mixed perfectly with 564 pints of milk for the 2009 Aroma Coffee Festival in Sydney, Australia.


"The worlds largest Mona Lisa" Produced by over 500 painters from village of Dafen in Guangdong Province, China, who contributed 999 oil painting segments of various sizes to create the gigantic portrait for the Shenzhen Pavilion of the Urban Best Practices Area at the Expo Park in Shanghai in September 2010.