Yes! It's a color version of L.H.O.O.Q., aka Duchamp's modified Mona Lisa. Good eye -- not many people notice the subtle joke.
(I like it because it's an onion of an icon. At the first level, people assume it's the straight Mona Lisa, and conclude that I like art history (true). At the second level, my fellow art history nerds recognize me for one of them, and even those who don't necessarily get the context still recognize that I have a working sense of humor and a playful, subversive bent that generally flies under the radar. At the third level, the really geeky art history people who are familiar with the 'L.H.O.O.Q.' joke start wondering why I'm smiling through the icon and then they subsequently start making flattering assumptions about my appearance that I will neither confirm nor deny.)
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Date: 2012-03-06 05:20 pm (UTC)(I like it because it's an onion of an icon. At the first level, people assume it's the straight Mona Lisa, and conclude that I like art history (true). At the second level, my fellow art history nerds recognize me for one of them, and even those who don't necessarily get the context still recognize that I have a working sense of humor and a playful, subversive bent that generally flies under the radar. At the third level, the really geeky art history people who are familiar with the 'L.H.O.O.Q.' joke start wondering why I'm smiling through the icon and then they subsequently start making flattering assumptions about my appearance that I will neither confirm nor deny.)