Artwork Description
Madsaki- Mona Lisa 3 Dharma Green Limited Edition Rare Spray Paint Can Artwork Crossover by famous graffiti paint maker Montana MTN.
Mona Lisa 3 Spray Paint Can, 2021 MNT Colors Spray Paint, Low Pressure Can in Wood and Acrylic Case Spray Paint Color: Dharma Green 400ml. Limited Edition of 500
Madsaki Mona Lisa 3 Dharma Green Spray Can in Street Pop Art & Graffiti Artwork
The Mona Lisa 3 Dharma Green spray paint can by Japanese artist Madsaki is a limited edition collectible released in 2021 as part of the Montana Colors artist series. Created in collaboration with the iconic graffiti paint brand Montana MTN, this edition transforms a 400ml can into a crossover artwork that bridges classical painting with the raw aesthetic of street expression. The artwork features Madsaki’s reinterpretation of the Mona Lisa, executed in his signature irreverent style with smeared eyes and a dripping smile. Known for challenging traditional art values through parody and graffiti energy, Madsaki reimagines one of the most recognized portraits in history by layering over it with his visual language of distortion, repetition, and satire. This edition was capped at 500 units and includes a Dharma Green paint fill, housed in a custom wood display case, making it both a functioning paint tool and a contemporary sculptural object.
Visual Style and Conceptual Fusion
Madsaki’s reworking of the Mona Lisa is emblematic of his broader practice, where he recontextualizes canonical works from art history through a graffiti-informed lens. His version on the Dharma Green can depicts the Mona Lisa with vacant eyes and a haunting grin rendered with black paint that bleeds downward, invoking both humor and discomfort. The brushwork mimics crude spray lines and hand-drawn texture, celebrating imperfection and emotional intensity over traditional beauty. This graffiti-infused rendition replaces reverence with raw energy, transforming a Renaissance icon into a modern pop symbol. Montana Colors used high-resolution printing technology to wrap this expression around the cylindrical form, reinforcing the unity between the artist’s visual narrative and the object’s street-level functionality. Each can serves as a portable canvas, allowing collectors to hold in hand a version of Madsaki’s bold and challenging artistic statement.
Artist Background and Cross-Medium Innovation
Madsaki, born in Osaka, Japan and raised in the United States, is internationally known for his ability to navigate fine art, graffiti, and pop culture. His career includes collaborations with galleries across Asia, Europe, and North America. Though trained at Parsons School of Design in New York, his artistic voice is rooted more in subversion than formalism. He frequently paints figures from Western art and mass media, overlaying them with emotive distortions and graffiti aesthetics. Madsaki's pieces often blur the lines between parody and homage, combining critique with cultural celebration. The Mona Lisa 3 can exemplifies this hybrid voice, drawing from art history and injecting it with street culture’s unfiltered pulse. His involvement in the Montana MTN series marks a fusion of museum-grade vision with urban materials, expanding the boundaries of Street Pop Art & Graffiti Artwork.
Collectible Value and Presentation
Each Mona Lisa 3 Dharma Green can arrives sealed with Montana’s factory-fill low pressure paint and is encased in a wooden and acrylic box stamped with the artist’s signature. This dual presentation reinforces the piece’s status as both an art object and a practical tool of graffiti. The display-ready nature of the packaging elevates the can beyond utility, while retaining the cultural edge of a spray can as a symbol of resistance, autonomy, and creation. As part of a limited series of 500, it has become a coveted object among collectors of street art, pop art, and contemporary crossovers. The work holds significance in the evolution of spray paint culture, encapsulating the idea that tools once considered part of a counterculture can be reclaimed as works of art in their own right. Madsaki’s Mona Lisa 3 spray can is a direct challenge to the hierarchy of fine art, using humor and raw form to restage history in a new urban light.
