leonardo da vincis masterpiece mona lisa has become part of our cultural memory and has inspired many artists of the 20th century to create their own works with the painting. george pusenkoff also dealt with the mona lisa. in 1993 he painted his first work with an image of the mona lisa. its title is "said duchamp". since then, he has repeatedly worked with the image of mona lisa, to an extent as no other artist before him:" for pusenkoff, the mona lisa has become his female alter ego, an iconic representation of his own artistic identity."