My Tales
we have been talking about the mona lisa for a long time in class and it is a very noteworthy painting costing millions an millions of dollars it is one of the most expensive paintings now if not the most expensive and it is because of the mystery behind the mona lisa that captures attention world wide, there are mainly two mysteries in the mona lisa the first is her smile, and the second is who she really is.
Mona Lisa smile is very famous because you dont really know why shes smilng or what kind of smie that really is, is she sad? is that a heartbroken smile? dis she smile because Leonardo da Vinci asked her too, is she seducing? is she happy? there are many interpretations of that single smile, some even say she looks consipated and she smiled like that because she really wanted to leave but was too polite to go.
the second mystery about the Mona lisa, is who is she? is she Lisa Gherardini the wife of Francesco del Giocondo who was a silk merchant of Florence, is she da Vinci himself expressing his feminine side is she Isabella the princess. like the her smile who she really is made alot of people wonder some say shes da Vinci because her facial features matches his, the others are just prospects. now these two mysteries are gonna continue for a vey long time nobody will be able t solve them becaus the artist is dead, the suject is also dead, they have no one to ask that is gonna be highly reliable, there will still be some doubt and that is what makes her so popular its because no one can figure out who she really is and in my point of view that is best because the mona lisa will loose its spark its mystery if people kenw who she really was, no one will take a second look to figure out who she is, no one will no longer ponder and think, thats bad.
the mona lisa has been subjected to diff kinds of change per artist that tried to draw her, some are spoofs some to sell products, some just to really try and evoke thought as to who she really is. we were asked to make such versions and what people came up with are well really unique, from shampoo ads, to boxer shorts ads, to the nude, to squiggles it was really amazing and they were able to defend it too, but my question for that activity which i never got to ask is there are diff versions bue if some of those versions are compleatly different like mona lisa with her hands behind her back, or mona lisa with fly away hair with a different pose. how can you say that that is still the mona lisa, i mean if i looked at some versions they were very pretty but i just cant see her, now the question is how much can you change the mona lisa for her to still look like mona lisa?
here are some images that i really liked:
