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Cholita Mona Lisa: Bolivian artist gives famed portrait indigenous makeover

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Alla Baja, Bolivia Reuters High in Bolivia’s Andean mountains, surrounded by small thatched roofed houses and sheep, Claudia Callizaya, 32, makes the final brushstroke to her newest piece of art: a take on the Mona Lisa as a local indigenous cholita woman. Her adaptation has the same steady gaze as in Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece […]