“Mona Lisa with Coca-Cola Bottles version 2.0” - 2021 by contemporary artist Taylor Smith. Mixed media on panel
Taylor Smith’s mixed media painting, Mona Lisa with Coca-Cola Bottles version 2.0 is an homage to capitalism, art history and American Dream. Pop art, Renaissance painting, glitched technology, art history and the glossy dreams of art collecting industrialists are represented in this series of conscious paintings. Taylor Smith speaks to contemporary facets of life in 21st century America by referencing data corruption and technology, luxury designer goods, childhood memories, consumerism and art history.
Smith appropriates source material from vintage advertising, pop culture, art history, European fashion houses, and Silicon Valley while working with silk screen, enamel, precious metal leaf, ink and transfer as a means to mechanically fix these images in stark contrast to the designer labels and designer logos loved by consumers.
Pop Art Street Art Graffiti Fusion Painting titled “Mona Lisa with Coca-Cola Bottles version 2.0” by contemporary artist Taylor Smith.
Smith uses iconic imagery from Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, vintage Coca-Cola silkscreens, history painting, technology glitch imagery and high-gloss epoxy resin to speak to centuries of art history. Artworks are mixed media on wood panel. At the crossroads of culture and art crime, this is art that makes you think. From the “Luxurious Disaster” series of original paintings and screen prints.
