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From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

Mona Lisa, or La Gioconda. (La Joconde), is a 16th century oil painting by Leonardo da Vinci, and is one of the most famous paintings in the world. It has acquired an iconic status in popular culture. In 1963, pop artist Andy Warhol started making colorful serigraph prints of the Mona Lisa. Warhol thus consecrated her as a modern icon, similar to Marilyn Monroe or Elvis Presley. At the same time, his use of a stencil process and crude colors implies a criticism of the debasement of aesthetic values in a society of mass production and mass consumption. Today the Mona Lisa is frequently reproduced, finding its way on to everything from carpets to mouse pads.

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Fame or Famous may refer to:

• The condition of being a celebrity

Etymology

From Latin fama ‘talk, rumor, report, reputation’, from Greek φήμη pheme ‘talk’, from Proto-Indo-European *bheH₂-mā-, from *bheH₂- ‘to speak’.

Works of art in the collective unconscious

works of art in the collective unconscious

There are certain paintings and sculpture from art history, and recently from 20th century modernism like Auguste Rodin's The Thinker, Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa, Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali, Christina's World by Andrew Wyeth and a few others that seem to have a life of their own outside the world of art museums. Deeply rooted in the collective unconscious, these paintings and sculptures inspire parody, emulation, satire, and admiration.

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• 15 minutes of fame

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