
Mona Lisa and Bob Marley - Is This Love - Mixed Media Record Albums and CD Pop Art Collage Print

by Steven Shaver
Title
Mona Lisa and Bob Marley - Is This Love - Mixed Media Record Albums and CD Pop Art Collage Print
Artist
Steven Shaver
Medium
Mixed Media - Record Albums
Description
Mona Lisa and Bob Marley - Is This Love - Mixed media record albums and CD pop art collage print by Steven Shaver.
The discovery of a vintage record album featuring the famous Mona Lisa painting on the cover led to an idea to create pop art collages from record album covers, gameboards and other collectables that could include her. Starting with Nat King Cole, love songs have been sung about Mona Lisa, but what if there were album covers with images of other famous singers that could be shown next to her singing and looking at her? What if monuments like the Statue of Liberty on album covers, iconic athletes like Babe Ruth on baseball cards, or game trinkets like the cat on Monopoly gameboards were placed at her side trying to get her attention? What would Mona Lisa be thinking?
Collage features Bob Marley song lyrics and repurposed record album covers: Mona Lisa on Leurs Amours cover and Bob Marley's, Is This Love, album and CD covers.
Original 'Mona Lisa' song facts:
This song was written by Ray Evans and Jay Livingston for the 1950's movie Captain Carey, U.S.A. It won an Oscar for Best Song. In this song, Nat King Cole compares his love to the famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci. The Mona Lisa if famous for her smile and her mystique, as the portrait has become one of the most famous works of art in history.
Original 'Mona Lisa' song lyrics:
Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa, men have named you
You're so like the lady with the mystic smile
Is it only 'cause you're lonely they have blamed you?
For that Mona Lisa strangeness in your smile?
Do you smile to tempt a lover, Mona Lisa?
Or is this your way to hide a broken heart?
Many dreams have been brought to your doorstep
They just lie there and they die there
Are you warm, are you real, Mona Lisa?
Or just a cold and lonely lovely work of art?
Do you smile to tempt a lover, Mona Lisa?
Or is this your way to hide a broken heart?
Many dreams have been brought to your doorstep
They just lie there and they die there
Are you warm, are you real, Mona Lisa?
Or just a cold and lonely lovely work of art?
Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa
Note: Watermark will NOT be on print. The black outline is part of the design to make the collage appear framed, not an actual frame.
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July 15th, 2022
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