"Elle a chaud au cul"

If you ever wondered how Duchamp's Mona Lisa readymade had been made into a Dadaist pun, you'll have to say each letter of "L.H.O.O.Q" aloud in French language phonics.



Translated, it reads, 'Elle a chaud au cul."

She has a hot ass.

The actual experience of the Mona Lisa was a little more sublime than that of Duchamp's, who seemed to have an inclination towards toilet humour. After all, he did make a masterpiece out of a porcelain urinal.

L.H.O.O.Q & company

for my nineteenth birthday at mr. pickwick's we put a moustache on mona in true DADA fashion, kinda like this one here.

except this one is by Dali and sports a much more 'signature' tache, a reinvention of marcel duchamp's parody, L.H.O.O.Q. here, dali is representing himself as an artist maintaining his own subjectivity, as both the creator and self-created.

duchamp's ready-made aided 'objet trouve' pokes fun at the sexual ambiguity of the mona lisa as well as makes a snide reference to leonardo's own homosexuality.

http://www.studiolo.org/Mona/MONASV12.htm