This is my second tattoo a day after it was done. It was done by Rev Jay at Tatmandu in Walla Walla, WA. I’m an art history major and this is from a ready-made piece from 1919 by Marcel Duchamp. He took a cheap postcard of the Mona Lisa and drew a mustache and goatee on her and wrote L.H.O.O.Q. at the bottom of it which is a pun. When the letters are pronounced in French, they sound like a phrase, “Elle a chaud au cul” which loosely translates as “She’s hot for it”. By doing so, he made the gender of the Mona Lisa ambiguous. Duchamp’s whole point of his ready-mades was to make viewers see from a new perspective. Duchamp did his own thing and didn’t care if it pissed people off. He’s always been an artist that stood out to me.

This is my second tattoo a day after it was done. It was done by Rev Jay at Tatmandu in Walla Walla, WA. I’m an art history major and this is from a ready-made piece from 1919 by Marcel Duchamp. He took a cheap postcard of the Mona Lisa and drew a mustache and goatee on her and wrote L.H.O.O.Q. at the bottom of it which is a pun. When the letters are pronounced in French, they sound like a phrase, “Elle a chaud au cul” which loosely translates as “She’s hot for it”. By doing so, he made the gender of the Mona Lisa ambiguous. Duchamp’s whole point of his ready-mades was to make viewers see from a new perspective. Duchamp did his own thing and didn’t care if it pissed people off. He’s always been an artist that stood out to me.

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    shoulder—freckles:...I actually think this is cool. But I sort of love how much of a troll...
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    Ahaha, I remember that work. Art...world, unite! ;) He’s also known for buying
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    You learn something everyday. Intelligence + tattoos :)
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