Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci

I visited the Louvre in Paris, France and the one thing that I knew for sure that I wanted to imagine was the Leonardo Da Vinci master lay out. I took the metro that led me into a middle where I walked down a very long hall of shops on each side. Finally, we reached the large inverted pyramid on the middle of a large room. If facing the pyramid with the long hall of the inwardness to your back, you spate breast forward and to the left and you will watch out an entrance to Comedie-Francaise.It doesnt look like much from just the doorway from inside the mall of the Louvre but it is an underground studio theatre where you contribute adopt French comedy shows or plays. Leonardo De Vinci utilise rock oils to paint the Mona Lisa creating a life like moving-picture show. The size of this film was not a cosmic as I expected to be but the painting itself is amazing. I did not feel there were any distinct lines, but there were plenty of shading that allowed every part to flow rig ht into the next. Like, how the vesture flows softly into a hand, or how her forehead perfectly blends into her hair.I think of this painting like it was photograph, it is brilliant how her chin stops and her neck begins with subtle lines, goose egg everywhere exaggerated. De Vinci used colors that seemed to draw attention to her face as the central organise. There is a perfect contrast of colors between her pale, soft looking skin against her dark dress catches the eye. This contrast is so app atomic number 18nt that you nooky even see the color of her hands are just a little darker than the color of her face, which assists in drawing the mantraps attention to her face.Her facial expression is the what makes her face the obvious focal point of this painting. It pulls out a lot of questions from the mind. Is she glad? If so, what or who was she was smiling at? Is it a smile to go along with a coltish glance as if she was expressing all of her thoughts to the one she was loo king at? Or is she even looking at anyone or anything? Just the smile held so numerous different meanings. It seems to me that it is a smile of happiness or flirtation. perchance she is just at peace about something.But then again, after perusing it for some time, her smile could mean something wholly different. It could be a stark smile and once you think it may be one of seriousness, it can change your mind of what her eyes are saying. My view of her facial expressions can be completely different to anyone else, but I think that is the point of any type of painting. One thing that took me a while to label was that she had no eyebrows or even eyelashes. I thought it was multicolored that way, and so did everyone else in the room.After a long while of gazing at this painting I overheard a tour guide telling he group that she did in fact have them at one time and they had gradually disappeared over time, possibly as a result of cleaning over many years. I tried to visualize w hat she would look like with them, or if it would completely change my view of her expressions but I think that with the eyebrows and eyelashes missing supplement a slight semi-abstract quality to her face. One other thing that I knew but never took the time to realize was that Leonardo da Vinci used a wood panel for his painting.What a magnificent piece of art, to look so realistic and yet on a piece of wood. This only goes to show how great of an artist Leonardo da Vinci really was. An oil painted masterpiece on a wood panel painted in 16th century still in one piece and preserved well enough for it to be available for all to see and study is amazing to me. The observers job is to interpret the painting and try to visualize what it was that the artist is expressing as they created their art work. Knowing now, what I have learned in this class gives me opportunity to truly find out what it meant to be able to view such a masterpiece.