Cholita Mona Lisa: Bolivian artist gives famed portrait indigenous makeover

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KALLA BAJA, Bolivia : 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 Leonard

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KALLA BAJA, Bolivia : 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.

"There are many women in the world, with different types of clothing. I'm Cholita, and I said the Mona Lisa has to be a Cholita, just like me," Callizaya said. Cholitas, usually indigenous Aymara or Quechua women, are generally from poor farming communities and have long faced marginalization in the Andean nation, which has the highest percentage of indigenous people in Latin America.

At the college, she came up with the idea of incorporating famous icons of feminine beauty with the features and clothing of Aymara women like herself.

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