How the Visual Arts Communicate
Michelle Ann Cushman
ART/100
February 4, 2012
Theresa Shellcroft
How the Visual Arts Communicate
Mona Lisa is painting of the oil on the wood which is very medium. It was one of Leonardo Da Vinci’s most favorite paintings that he can’t part with, and he still possessed it when he died. Mona Lisa is also called “La Giaconda” which means “the joyful one.” Leonardo studies the history of the painting that can shed light on and provide a greater dimension to the people’s work of arts.
“Leonardo’s Mona Lisa is one of the most famous paintings in the world. Today the” painting can be seen in Louvre which is in “Paris but it was painted in Florence when he moved there to live from” 1500-1508. The identification of the painting was provided by Vasari, but it was later disputed. It is “uncertainty over the identification” “which has added to the mystery and lure surrounding the painting for many years” now.
“Leonardo makes” the “use of his technique to show how the light bounces off her skin in certain places while leaving other parts in darker shadows”. He believed that darkness comes first in the world and light penetrates it as it is show in his painting.
The painting looks like a very “naturalism in the figure” which “includes a background which” we can see “with a stark contrast”. He “placed Lisa against a landscape, but you can see the base of the vertical supports to either side of her”. If you “look over her shoulder to the left side, we” can “see a road and mountains painted in a way which seems” very “similar” to the Chinese landscape painting. “On the right side, we can see a bridge, and a road which” lead us “to” the “sea”. “In front of us” is a “touchable woman who is in the world of the here-and-now. She seems” very “real to” all the people. “The contrast between the” women “and the background landscape” is very “remarkable and it” leads “to the power of the painting. Mona...