The DailyArt app was launched 12 years ago today! Since then, we’ve added DailyArt Magazine, online art history courses, quizzes, art prints, and other great ways to experience art! We’re celebrating by offering 12 Mona Lisa memes representing well-known artists.
Why Mona Lisa memes? It all started with the DailyArt app, whose icon is a variation on Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa portrait. Over the years, artists have reinterpreted iconic images seeking to exaggerate one concept of a movement, send a message, or create a dichotomy. Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is one such image—countless memes of this iconic painting have been made.
Can you guess the 12 artists represented by these Mona Lisa memes?
This meme represents—an artist well-known for colorful and symbolic self-portraits: