The Mona Lisa with her boobs out: it's Laika's street art piece for Free Nipple Day

No work of art has been the subject, more than Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa , of revisitations and mockery, starting with Marcel Duchamp’s one with a mustache and continuing with dozens, perhaps hundreds, of homages, jokes and reinterpretations. No one, however, had perhaps ever depicted her with her boobs out: it was street artist Laika who came up with the idea of an extravagant and uninhibited bare-breasted Mona Lisa, who for Free Nipple Day imagined a poster with the Mona Lisa proudly boobed out.

The poster appeared on the streets of Rome this morning on Via dei Dalmati in the San Lorenzo neighborhood. Laika made her own Mona Lisa by adding a real breast in the background to the image of Leonardo’s work and the words “Free the Nipple,” the social and political campaign that promotes gender equality and freedom of expression through normalizing the exposure of women’s breasts in public, just as it is for males.

“Laws and cultural norms that prohibit and stigmatize female breast exposure must be challenged because they are the result of a purely sexualized and patriarchal view of the female body,” said Laika. “Let’s overcome the discrimination of female breast exposure and its hateful censorship. FREE THE NIPPLE.”

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The Mona Lisa with her boobs out: it's Laika's street art piece for Free Nipple Day

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