{"id":297064,"date":"2026-02-22T20:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T20:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/297064\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T20:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T20:03:08","slug":"artist-recycles-a-theme-creating-latin-american-mona-lisa-in-el-salvador-with-plastic-bottle-caps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/297064\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist recycles a theme creating \u2018Latin American Mona Lisa\u2019 in El Salvador with plastic bottle caps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"nfOBuVOCysHhj\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe Mona Lisa is an ordinary woman, and she\u2019s an icon of the Italian Renaissance\u201d and now \u201cwe are living through a new Renaissance, both in El Salvador and the world\u201d, Olivares said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nfOBuVOCysHhj\" style=\"display:none\">Completed in three weeks, the composition is made of more than 100,000 recycled bottle caps, after they were gathered by local residents over several months, washed and sorted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nfOBuVOCysHhj\" style=\"display:none\">Instead of the muted palette of the Italian countryside, Olivares replaced da Vinci\u2019s pastoral background with bright depictions of homes, a bold blue mountain and a colourful checkerboard sky.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nfOBuVOCysHhj\" style=\"display:none\">And it wouldn\u2019t be the Mona Lisa without her penetrating gaze and that ever-elusive smile, this time seen on a sun-kissed face rendered with red, orange and yellow caps. Her jewellery, hairstyle and colourful dress evoke a modern Latina\u2019s graces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nfOBuVOCysHhj\" style=\"display:none\">Olivares has created murals using plastic caps in Venezuela, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, France and Italy, finding use for over two million caps in more than two dozen murals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nfOBuVOCysHhj\" style=\"display:none\">He hopes his work will give viewers \u201ca completely different view of plastic waste\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nfOBuVOCysHhj\" style=\"display:none\">-Agence France-Presse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Mona Lisa is an ordinary woman, and she\u2019s an icon of the Italian Renaissance\u201d and now \u201cwe&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[8239,1628,9085,3043,42574,50605,83585,273,78,72976,12001,35961,111,139,69,11325,163704,3354,12605,163705,147,32740,102],"class_list":{"0":"post-297064","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-american","9":"tag-artist","10":"tag-bottle","11":"tag-call","12":"tag-caps","13":"tag-creating","14":"tag-el","15":"tag-environment","16":"tag-in","17":"tag-latin","18":"tag-lisa","19":"tag-mona","20":"tag-new-zealand","21":"tag-newzealand","22":"tag-nz","23":"tag-plastic","24":"tag-recycles","25":"tag-recycling","26":"tag-renaissance","27":"tag-salvador","28":"tag-science","29":"tag-theme","30":"tag-with"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}