Saturday, August 19, 2006

Mona Lisa's smile stops traffic in the US

Standing at a majestic 60-feet tall, this new feature on the US landscape is certainly a traffic stopper.



Motorists have been left open-mouthed at the sight of this landscape image of Leonardo da Vinci's most famous masterpiece, the Mona Lisa.

The amazing reproduction of the Mona Lisa has been created by local artist Samuel Clemens, who says he has been waiting to create a piece of landscape art since he was a child and saw a picture of a farmer who had transformed a field into art using fertilizer to darken the green of the grass.

The masterpiece was recreated by making a stencil on a tarpaulin, then dusting the hillside with black water-based pigment. It took him 14 hours just to lay out the tarpaulin and another nine to spray the 40-by-60-foot painting.

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