Shaike Snir 'Mmona, I can’t create I can just multiply' mid century modernism Image Size: 70 x 52

Image Size: 70 x 52 cm

‘Still-life study with sunflowers and a vase’ stems from this era

'Vieux Monde' 2017

but the artist also perceives an analogy between concealing clothing and the Jewish experience

Shaike Snir 'Mmona, I can’t create I can just multiply' mid century modernism Image Size: 70 x 52This 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 which when pronounced in French, sounds like the vulgar phrase