For this art essay I decided to learn and critique on an artist by the name of Leonardo da Vinci. I chose him because I didn't know that much about him and wanted to know why he is so admired and famous? Did he become famous before or after he died? What makes Leonardo unique compared to other artists? I also wanted to learn more about the Mona Lisa. Why is it such famous and valuable painting for just being a picture of a lady? Is the Mona Lisa the Leonardo's only famous painting? All of these questions I hoped to be able to answer.
Leonardo da Vinci was born in 1452 and died in 1519. Painting and being an artist is in the da Vinci genes. When Leonardo was just fifteen years old his artistic career had begun. He was an apprentice for a famous artist by the name of Verrochio. While working for Verrochio he did little things in the background of paintings and eventually became an even better painter than Verrochio. From here he became famous in his early twenties. He wasn't only a painter, but also an inventor. Inventing things like flying machines, geometry, mechanics, municipal construction, canals and architecture. Leonardo da Vinci liked to use two main types of techniques in his paintings; sfumato and chiaroscuro. Sfumato is a technique that artists use to make smoky overall haze effect to a painting using a lightly tainted varnish. Leonardo da Vinci liked to use this technique because dusk was his most favorite time of the day and during dusk usually came fog. The other technique he liked to use was chiaroscuro. Chiaroscuro is a technique that an artist uses to define an object through contrast of light and shadowing. He liked to use this technique because it made a picture look more realistic and lifelike. Leonardo da Vinci was the first artist to study the human anatomy. This in return he would use in his paintings to give proportion body parts on human figures.
The Secrets of Mona Lisa Outline I. ... Leonardo da Vinchi's profile on the veil of the Mona Lisa. ... The way Mona Lisa looks at us. ... The top of his head is the veil line crossing Mona Lisa's forehead. The profile looks to Mona Lisa's right and our left as we view the painting. ...
But perhaps, his most famous and controversial masterpiece is the "Mona Lisa." ... The Mona Lisa looks both approachable and evasive, like a human being, but with unrealistic qualities. ... Her identity was mush easier to find than the Mona Lisa's. ... Lastly, a comparison of the "Mona Lisa" to da Vinci's final female portrait, "Ginevra de' Benci," shows, yet again, more differences that sets the "Mona Lisa" apart from his other portraits. ... Of all the works da Vinci created, the Mona Lisa is probably his most famous. ...
Mona Lisa Smile In the movie Mona Lisa Smile, directed by Mike Newell in 2003, three eligible women have choices and what they chose grounds them to the roles they play in society and what inevitable leads them to feminism because of the choices they made. ... In Mona Lisa Smile, we see a world full circle of women who are victims of men and even circumstance. ... Ten years before the feminist movement really embraced women, the women in Mona Lisa Smile were already challenge the role of man and women's liberation and making choices on their own. ... In Mona Lisa Smile, these wo...
In Leonardo's Mona Lisa (1503), her expression is that of physical and emotional restraint-riposo. Raphael's La Donna Velata (1516) also features a restrained expression like that of Mona Lisa. ... Mona Lisa and La Donna Velata's hairstyles are both smoothed dark hair with a part in the middle, obviously fashionable at the time. ... With Mona Lisa's background setting including a winding path/river, which gives the meaning of a Path of Virtue, the symbolism of the Path of Virtue combined with the veil symbolism shows that Mona Lisa was a married woman, not a mistress as...
An example of this is Leonardo DaVinci's Mona Lisa. Unlike the works described above, the Mona Lisa is composed of inexpensive materials, i.e. paint and wood. ... Leonardo DaVinci was so attached to his painting of the Mona Lisa that he held on to it until he died. ...
According to Hughes, this change began around the time the most famous painting in the world, the Mona Lisa, made it's way around the United States. In the film "The Mona Lisa Curse," talks with his friend Robert Rauschenberg, art collectors, and museum curators about the state of the art world today. There were two comments in "The Mona Lisa Curse" that particularly stuck out to me. ...
The improvement in the standard of the speeches was evident in this second informative speech. It was obvious that our class had used the information provided by the course, to improve numerous aspects of a speech. And that is said not for praising reasons, but because I was doubting the usefulness ...
