Lillian F. Schwartz: AZ300

 
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Artist(s):


Title:


    AZ300

Exhibition:


Creation Year:


    1998

Size:


    36" x 48"

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Artist Statement:


    The morphing of Leonardo to Mona Lisa, 1987, could only have been realized with a computer. Lillian Schwartz split the faces of the Mona Lisa and Leonardo’s self-portrait down the middle, adjusting the sizes and juxtaposing them so that one side of Mona Lisa’s face matched Leonardo’s. Schwartz chronicles the evolution of the split-face from a study in composition to a convincing argument that the Mona Lisa is based on Leonardo’s self-portrait. Leonardo is still with us, uniting science and art.


Other Information:


    Excerpted with permission by Barbara London, Lyon Biennial Exhibition Catalogue, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France, December 1995

    From the collection of Don Peterson, Lucent Technologies Bell Labs Innovations.


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