Animation Art: Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase

Joan Gratz used the clay painting (claymation) technique on her best-known work, "Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase," which won the 1992 Academy Award for best animated short film. A dazzling, compressed tour of modern art masterworks by Leonardo, Duchamp, Picasso, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, Dali and others.

 
Joan C. Gratz and digital images