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The rose recalls romance
Sydney onto heavy paper with a raw
'Odyssean'
'Murray Riverbank' 2004
Shaike Snir 'Demeter' black & white The rose recalls romanceThis 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
