In every term, artists have produced works in the direction of their own art-design understanding with reference to other artists’ studies. Acting based on a work or design, as known, is evaluated as an art education method. In this context, many artists or designers in different terms take inspiration from studies of other artists and designers. For example, Picasso has produced many works by being impressed by works of various artists. Especially Leonardo da Vinci’s famous work called Mona Lisa being unique art object is among very important masterpieces that are handled and referred to by many artists and designers. The most important characteristic of Mona Lisa is that it carries a masterpiece specialty interpreted by many artists-designers in the context of high art at the present time as well. Moreover, one of its significant characteristics, as different from the other interpreted art works, is that it is a masterpiece carrying the specialty of being one of works handled socio-culturally in the context of a reaction to high art and consumption society. This situation has also created a dilemma with respect to art-design in art history. With the process beginning with Duchamp, the Mona Lisa, which is the masterpiece of Leonardo da Vinci, has transformed into kind of Mona Lisa image, and been moved from museum to street and digital media. The aim of this article is to examine different Mona Lisa images transforming from masterpiece into image and display in the context of this dilemma. In this study, the works of Marcel Duchamp, Andy Warhol and Bansky, who transformed Mona Lisa into a socio-cultural and relational object and interpreted in this way, were examined. As a result, with the process beginning from Mona Lisa, new Mona Lisas re-creating themselves come across us by undergoing change and transformation in various forms.

Key Words: Unique art, Dilemma, Socio-Cultural Object, Relational Aesthetics.