This is a portrait called, “Untitled #209”, and it is from
Cindy Sherman’s “History Portrait Series”. This portrait shows Sherman taking
the persona of the Mona Lisa, in an Italian Renaissance style portrait. She is portraying one of the most famous
paintings, Sherman made it her own original work and wanted to ensure distance
between the painting and her. Sherman wants the viewers to rethink the
familiarity with the original and question how its conventions depict continue
to condition the way we do.
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