The different colours were created by adding no, little or lots of milk to each cup of black coffee. It measures an impressive 20 feet high and 13 feet wide and took a team of eight people three hours to complete. It was created for The Rocks Aroma Festival in Sydney, Australia, and seen by 130,000 people who attended the one-day coffee-lovers event.
Elaine Kelly, from event organisers the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority, was delighted with the result. She said: “Each coffee cup was filled with varying amounts of milk to create the different sepia shades of the painting. “We wanted to create an element of surprise and a sense of fun in the way we engaged with the public. “Once we had the idea of creating an image out of coffee cups we searched for something iconic to reproduce – and opted for the most iconic painting in history.
Telegraph (thanks, Tammy)
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Leonardo and Coffee. What’s not to love?
They should rename it “the Mocha Lisa”
I’ll get my coat.
Urrrrgh. Flapjack, you know the rule. No puns before I’ve had my coffee in the morning.
…oh wait….
i bet that smells amazing
It does not like like coffee with milk on the picture .. it looks as shades from black to very light grey .. That is, if it is not photoshopped ofcourse (yes, photoshop and other programs like that do make us suspicious nowadays ..). But if it is done the way they put it out, with whatever it is done .. impressive! The work ….
[...] Proving that there’s never too many ways to do something in a ridiculous manner, and following renditions in toast and in Post-It Notes, attention-seeking promotional types at a Sydney coffee festival have elected to recreate DaVinci’s famous portrait of the wife of a Florentian silk merchant through the medium of lots of little cups of coffee. [...]