Mona Lisa Talks To Fans (In Mandarin)!

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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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87 Comments
  • unknoneabout 14 years
    that is werd
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    • Cameronover 14 years
      WOW...=) Peace love happiness!!!
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      • the kidover 14 years
        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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        • fasfewfover 14 years
          fasfjqlmeim [means wow! how did they do that?!?!]
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          • Yover 14 years
            How in the world can that statue talk when it has no clothes that is so disturbing and can that headless girl even speak!!!!!!
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            • Yover 14 years
              That is so cool
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              • Samanthaalmost 15 years
                My dad is fluent and taught me a little, So I think it is awsome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AWSOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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                • Samanthaalmost 15 years
                  Hey guys! guess what! I speak a tiny bit of manderin, and i heard Hello mona lisa! Hello, my name is mona lisa! I know it's not much... but I hope it's helpful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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                  • smilygirl762over 15 years
                    awsome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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                    • 123456over 15 years
                      Soo cool. I wish that I could go there1 p.s I'm a HUGE fan of wishing!@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
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