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Man dressed as old woman in wheelchair smeared Mona Lisa with cake in Louvre in Paris

The art history professor also knows why smearing a well-known work of art is so symbolically powerful. “The moment you attack an iconic image, you create a new image that is much stronger than the image you are actually attacking,” he says. in “The world today” on Radio 1. “In the Middle Ages, for example, it was assumed that there are three types of images: what you see, what you imitate (eg a painting like the Mona Lisa), and the mental image.”

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