The famous painting "Mona Lisa" is also called "Smile". The Mona Lisa in the painting is indeed a real person. She was a wealthy burgess of Florence. She was only twenty-four when Leonardo da Vinci first began painting her. It is said that Mona Lisa's beloved daughter had just died not long ago, so she was depressed all day long. In order to arouse the model's heartfelt smile, the artist painted her portrait and asked people to play music beside her. In this way, he tried every possible means to elicit a momentary smile from this beauty, which seemed to be fleeting. Look: Mona Lisa's mouth is slightly wrinkled, her eyebrows are stretched, and her face shows a barely detectable smile. This smile seems to be passing over her face, which not only shows her inner excitement without losing her peaceful expression, but also reveals the subtle psychological activities deep inside the character, which is fascinating and fascinating.
Isn’t it? Mona Lisa's smile sometimes makes you feel gentle and intoxicating; sometimes it seems sad and sad; sometimes it is slightly ironic, beautiful but a bit inaccessible. For hundreds of years since the "Mona Lisa" came out, people have tasted, speculated, and argued in front of her. It is mysterious and puzzling.
Of course, discussing Mona Lisa’s smile is related to the creator’s artistic thoughts and expression techniques. The discussion of this issue is by no means as boring as the medieval scholastic philosophers arguing about how many angels can stand on the tip of a needle. Scholars are seriously exploring the mysterious reasons behind Mona Lisa's smile.
Some people believe from the perspective of aesthetic psychology that different people or the same person will often have different feelings when viewing the same work of art in different moods. People can constantly discover new meanings in works based on their own life experiences.
Some scholars, such as art historian Jameson, point out from an aesthetic point of view that this mysterious smile is caused by the author trying to create his idealized image on a very specific character. The epitome of beauty; striving to make a fleeting facial expression an eternal symbol of joy. It is this combination of contradictions that produces a surprisingly objective effect.
Some analyze it from the perspective of historians, saying that the smile of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa shows the vitality of the early bourgeoisie and is full of hope for the future of capitalism. , she is a true portrayal of the emerging bourgeoisie.
Some painters discussed it from the perspective of painting techniques, saying that Leonardo da Vinci set up a background with different perspectives for the young woman sitting on the balcony. When people focus on the left, they feel The distant view descends while the characters rise; conversely, when people look to the right, they feel that the distant view rises while the characters descend. The facial features of the characters in the portrait are also in an uncertain position. In addition, the author made the corners of the mouth and feet, which reflect a person's smile, vaguely visible and unclear, which makes the smile of the protagonist in the painting quite suspicious.
Some researchers ingeniously studied Mona Lisa’s “physiological condition” from a medical perspective and determined that she suffered from esotropia. The modernist painter insisted that Mona Lisa should have a beard. For this reason, he just added two mustaches to Mona Lisa's mouth with a stroke of his pen. It makes people laugh and cry after watching it.
It should be pointed out that not only the smile of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is mysterious, but also the identity and age of the protagonist in the painting and where the authentic painting is hidden. There is no consensus and there are different opinions, which makes Mona Lisa’s smile even more confusing. Here are a few:
According to the results of research by Italian scholar Piedretti and former Soviet professor Ozzie, it is believed that "Mona Lisa" Lisa" is actually "Portrait of a Prostitute"! Contrary to the past, this was a statement made by a noble lady. As soon as this statement came out, the academic community was in an uproar.
As for the age of the person in the painting, some researchers also believe that it is not a young girl in her twenties as in the past, but that she has reached middle age - she should be Over thirty-seven or forty years old.
The original painting of Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" is hidden in the Louvre Museum in Paris. But over the centuries, many collectors have claimed to have as many as sixty real Mona Lisas in their collections. What's even more interesting is that in 1984, the Bertrand Museum of Art in Maine, in the eastern United States, received another painting called "Mona Lisa without Smiling". It was determined using modern technical means that this painting was indeed painted by Leonardo da Vinci. In addition to not smiling, the characters in the painting are exactly like Mona Lisa herself. The artist speculates that this "Mona Lisa without Smiling" may be a draft that the author painted at the same time.
There are really endless things to say about Mona Lisa’s smile, and endless things to say about the Mona Lisa.