Call it a Renaissance in recycling. A massive mural made of plastic bottle caps depicts Latin America’s version of the famed Mona Lisa, adorning a modest apartment building in a working class neighborhood outside the capital of El Salvador instead of the walls of the Louvre. Using a rainbow of colors and various sizes of caps, Venezuelan artist Oscar Olivares’s latest installation is 13 meters (about 43 feet) tall and takes inspiration from Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci as well as the pointillist paintings of French artist Paul Signac. “I wanted to portray a Latin American Mona Lisa,” Olivares told […]... Keep on reading: Artist creates 'Latin American Mona Lisa' with plastic bottle caps