Wednesday, March 23
Today we began to watch the video "The Mona Lisa Curse" narrated by Robert Hughes. This video explained that the art world is different from the 1960s as the "Mona Lisa" created new expectations about art. This artwork became a piece of art to an icon of mass consumption. People came to see the "Mona Lisa" at the Met in the 1960s not to enjoy the painting itself but to just simply say that they saw it. It deeply changed the way that art was seen. In 1963, the painting was quickly scanned and then disregarded showing limited viewer interest. This video shows how money and wealth has become a curse in the way art is made, controlled, and experienced. Hughes focuses on New York in this video but speaks to art everywhere.
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