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The Mona Lisa Curse

The Mona Lisa Curse is a Grierson award-winning polemic documentary by art critic Robert Hughes that examines how the world’s most famous painting came to influence the art world.

With his trademark style, Hughes explores how museums, the production of art and the way we experience it have radically changed in the last 50 years, telling the story of the rise of contemporary art and looking back over a life spent talking and writing about the art he loves, and loathes.

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  • Daniel in Boston

    AzRyan: I do believe you had No Idea who Mr Hughes is … In 1979 he released both a book and a TV documentary called: “The Shock of the New” – everyone agrees this is the Seminal work about Modern Art … he has Millions of followers, hence it would have been repetitive, redundant and take too much valuable time away from his new work of critique: The Mona Lisa Curse … If you were in Paris, New York City, London, Berlin, Las Angeles, Rome, Tokyo, Sydney, Moscow, Sao Paulo, you’d see that Art lost its meaning. Get the aforementioned book from your local library. Mr Hughes is not perfect as a Critic, but he does express himself with blunt sincerity – what you or I would say to the Artist, if it were possible.

  • Ban the Man

    Amazing doc, robert hughes nails contempory art so well!

    • azryan

      Well produced Doc, and interesting career of an Art Critic on Modern Art and his claims of ruining the art world by the influence of money. He spoke over and over about the Mona Lisa losing its true meaning, yet you have to notice how he never said what its meaning ‘is’. He also didn’t directly take on the question of ‘what is art’, and I think while damning the auction house/billionaire art swapper monopoly, didn’t deny that the work being swapped was art or not. Of if it was ‘good’ art. Or if not… ‘why’?
      He came across as highly informed but a bit stodgy and stubborn. There is another opposing point of view missing in all this…even though I think it wouldn’t be an equal point of view to his.