Serene. Beautiful. Untouchable. All of those words can be used to describe the subject of Leonardo Da Vinci's best-known painting, "The Mona Lisa." And, while almost everyone knows what she looks like, no one knows her story. Her life is a blank canvas, open to whatever tale we wish to weave about her history, her background, her relationship to the painter, and the reason for the slight smile on her face.
For me, I believe that Mona Lisa portrays an enigmatic smile because there is a puzzle on her face that resembles for a big value. The smile gives a question about her mood. The Mona Lisa's smile is very unique because it is quite confusing. Her eyebrows affect her smile.
I think it's a portrait of the artist as a young woman; an overlay of Leonardo's face, taken from a known self-portrait and sized to the right scale matches the size and spacing relation of all the features. That might account for the famously subtle smile on the lips of the subject.
No comments:
Post a Comment