Thursday, April 22, 2010

Coffee Cups Recreate the Mona Lisa


A small group for a big group. Specifically, 8 people for 130,000 curious eyes.

The Mona Lisa has been recreated with 3,604 cups of coffee and 564 pints of milk in Sydney, Australia. The 3, 604 cups of coffee were each filled with different amounts of milk to create different sepia shades of the painting. It measures an impressive 20 feet high and 13 feet wide and took a team of eight people and three hours to complete.

This was created for the Aroma Festival at the Rocks in Sydney in early 2009. It uses only variations of two shades; black coffee, light coffee, latte, and milk.