Shaike Snir 'Mmona, I can’t create I can just multiply' mid century modernism Conceived in 1953

Conceived in 1953

In ‘Friends’

bees and tea cups

they speak to an artist who cares deeply for the world

Image Size: 70 x 52 cm

Shaike Snir 'Mmona, I can’t create I can just multiply' mid century modernism Conceived in 1953This 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