Mona Lisa

Mona Lisa

Introduction

The Mona Lisa, the world's most famous painting is one of the few master pieces that I have seen personally. I do not understand why she is so fascinating to observe and behold; however, something about her eyes and her smile mesmerize me. The genuineness of this art work and how ordinary the lady in this painting is the main reason why I can behold this painting with immense joy and bliss, it does not make me imagine a lot, it does not even perplex me, the normalcy and the simplicity of this painting is what I love. Though, later than an analysis you can find out that the painting is not ordinary at all. The painting of Mona Lisa is a portrait and thus, portrays a seated lady, Lisa del Giocondo, the wife of a rich Florentine businessman, whose facial expressions are quite mystifying. Others consider that the slight smile denotes that the subject is covering or hiding top secret. The vagueness of the expressions of this lady, the colossal composition, and the fine and delicate representation of forms and full of atmosphere illusionism were original traits that have added to the continuing charm and analysis of the work. Thus, it is undoubtedly the most well-known and legendary portrait of all time.

Discussion

Description of the Painting

Through Mona Lisa, Leonardo raised himself into a different rank of artist, the ones who come up with extremely new perspectives and forms. The comparatively little painting of Mona Lisa keeps up to craft one of the most effective and intense art skills into a compacted frame. As for what type of paint Mona Lisa was initially envisaged with, oils were applied on poplar wood board and have been reinstated a number of times. Leonardo da Vinci places his subject in the center of the painting, by means of a pyramid design to focus her. Her folding hands make the frontage of the pyramid and Leonardo makes use of the same shimmering light for her face, neck and breast. The lighting is extremely significant as he employs it to form a number of geometric shapes like spheres and circles that make up the painting. The painting form is very plain, an adjustment of the Seated Madonna, a figure very famous for portraits during fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

The Smile

For hundreds of years, writers, politicians, psychologists, and historians have been trying to present their individual theories as to what Mona Lisa's smile might indicate. Freud illustrated it as a reference to an Oedipus complex in Da Vinci at the same time as others have declared that it is a symbol of calm and innocence. The issue of why the smile is perceived in a number of different ways has turned out to be nearly as great of a research topic as the smile itself.

Background/Landscape

The whole background of this painting is a landscape. Mona Lisa, the subject of this painting is not set in an open sky. In comparison with other portraits, this painting absorbs the ...