Mona Lisa Talks To Fans (In Mandarin)!

By Meera Dolasia on 08/31/2009

While Leonard da Vinci's Mona Lisa looks beautiful with her shy mysterious smile, she is not much of conversationalist. However, the 'new' Mona Lisa is quite the opposite. She waves to her fans and is happy share fun anecdotes about her life, if asked. The catch? You have to be able to understand Mandarin-Chinese!

The interactive version of this classic icon is part of the 'World Classic Interactive Arts' exhibition, a collection of 61 classical paintings and sculptures, all recreated with with 3-D holograms and voice recognition devices.

The brainchild of an art gallery in South Korea, the exhibit took 400 engineers and artists over two years to create at an estimated cost of $7million USD.

Among other interactive paintings is another da Vinci classic, Last Supper. Here Jesus can be seen chatting with his apostles,while moving the table around. Even the Greek and Roman statues are interactive, brazenly holding conversations with visitors.

The floating exhibit is currently in Beijing, China, where it is scheduled to stay until November, before moving on to the cities of Hangzhou and Shanghai. Hopefully, they will eventually make their way to our neck of the woods!

sources: bbcnews.co.uk, ndtv.com,cbc.ca.com

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Comments (32)

swirlylollypops 5 months ago

awesome

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lilyan 12 months ago

i saw the real monalisa

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alien about 1 year ago

i thought she talk a another lanuges

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nicole about 1 year ago

omg!she scared me and that is amazing

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the hood about 1 year ago

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kayla about 1 year ago

THAT IS IMPRESING

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muzik man about 1 year ago

awesome! the graphics are cool!

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unknone about 1 year ago

that is werd

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Cameron over 1 year ago

WOW...=) Peace love happiness!!!

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the kid over 1 year ago

the people there most of been freek out to me talking to a picy=ture like 1000 years old omg watch the vid

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