Money Lisa and the Commodification of Art is a painting by Patrick Anthony Pierson which was uploaded on August 4th, 2014.
Money Lisa and the Commodification of Art
The noteworthy shift toward the undeniable commodification of art and art packaged for mass consumption took place at the Met in February of 1963... more
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Title
Money Lisa and the Commodification of Art
Artist
Patrick Anthony Pierson
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
The noteworthy shift toward the undeniable commodification of art and art packaged for mass consumption took place at the Met in February of 1963 when the John F. Kennedy family attended the first public showing of the Mona Lisa in the US.
What happened afterward that would change the way art is perceived has more to do with big money than with learning to appreciate fine art, to wit: People came to the Met, not to look at the Mona Lisa, but to say that they’d seen it...just as the Kennedy family had.
The entanglement of big money with art had forever tainted the way art is produced, controlled, and most notably, the way art is seen and appreciated. Da Vinci's little painting had taken a quantum leap from artwork to icon for mass consumption practically overnight.
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August 4th, 2014
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