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This essay will first discuss in detail the painting with my reactions and feelings as I studied its details. I feel that it is necessary to dedicate the greater part of this essay to this, before finally proceeding to analyze it based on Freud’s ideas on the unconscious, as this painting truly has affected me…

Mona lisa: three different approaches The theme, subject matter, and content in these works are all markedly different.  In da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, the subject matter is the seated woman, clearly and respectfully portrayed, with the lighting as the only special effect and no irony apparent.  In Duchamp’s L. H.O.O.Q. (Mona Lisa with Moustache), a work…