What does Mona Lisa mean by smiling?

The famous painting Mona Lisa is also called "smile". The Mona Lisa in the painting is a real person. She is a wealthy female citizen of Florence. When Leonardo da Vinci first started painting her, she was only 24 years old. It is said that Mona Lisa's beloved daughter just died not long ago, so she was unhappy all day. In order to arouse the model's heartfelt smile, the painter painted her and invited people to play music beside her, which caused the beauty to smile instantly in all aspects, as if it were fleeting. You see: Mona Lisa's mouth is slightly wrinkled, her brow is stretched, and her face is just perceptible. This smile seems to pass over her face, showing her inner excitement and serene expression, revealing the subtle psychological activities in the characters' hearts, which is fascinating and fascinating.

Isn't it? Mona Lisa's smile sometimes makes you feel gentle and intoxicating; Sometimes it seems that the connotation of sadness is sadness; Sometimes it's a little ironic. Although it's beautiful and touching, it's a little inaccessible. Since the Mona Lisa came out hundreds of years ago, people have been tasting, speculating and arguing in front of her, which is mysterious and puzzling.

Of course, the discussion of Mona Lisa's smile is related to the artist's artistic thought and expression. The discussion of this question is by no means as boring as the medieval scholastics arguing about how many angels can stand on the tip of a needle. Scholars are seriously discussing the mysterious reasons for Mona Lisa's smile.

From the perspective of aesthetic psychology, some people think that different people or the same person often have different feelings when watching the same work of art in different moods. People can constantly find new meanings in their works by virtue of their own life experiences.

Some scholars, such as Jameson, an art historian, point out from the aesthetic point of view that this mysterious smile is caused by the author's efforts to shape his idealized typical beauty in a very specific character; Trying to be a fleeting expression and an eternal symbol of happiness. It is this combination of contradictions that has produced amazing objective effects.

Others analyzed it from a historian's point of view, saying that the Mona Lisa in Leonardo da Vinci's works showed the vitality of the early bourgeoisie and was full of hope for the future of capitalism. She is a true portrayal of the emerging bourgeoisie.

Some painters discussed painting skills, saying that Leonardo da Vinci set a different perspective background for this young woman sitting on the balcony. When people's eyes are focused on the left, they feel that the prospects are declining and the characters are rising. On the contrary, when people focus on the right, they feel that the prospects are rising and the characters are falling. The five senses of the characters in the portrait are also in an uncertain state. In addition, the author painted the corners of the mouth that reflect people's smiles, and the boundaries are unclear, which makes the smile of the protagonist in the painting quite suspicious.

Some researchers have studied Mona Lisa's "physiological condition" from a medical point of view and concluded that she suffers from esotropia. The modernist painter insisted that Mona Lisa should have a beard, so he added two moustaches to her mouth with a stroke of the pen. Makes people laugh and cry.

It should be pointed out that not only the Mona Lisa's Smile written by Leonardo da Vinci is mysterious, but also there are different opinions about the identity and age of the protagonist in the painting and where the original is hidden, which makes the Mona Lisa's Smile more and more confusing, just to mention one or two:

According to the research results of Italian scholar Pietro Di and former Soviet Union professor Auzqui, the Mona Lisa is actually "a portrait of a prostitute"! Contrary to the past, this is what a lady said. When this theory came out, the academic community was in an uproar.

As for the age of the person in the painting, some researchers think that she is not a girl in her twenties as mentioned in the past "conclusion", but has "reached middle age"-she should be over 37 or 40 years old.

Leonardo da Vinci's original Mona Lisa is in the Louvre in Paris. But for hundreds of years, many collectors claimed that they owned as many as 60 real Mona Lisa. More interestingly, in 1984, the Bertrand Art Museum in Maine, USA, received another painting, Mona Lisa without a smile. By using modern technology, this painting was indeed made by Leonardo da Vinci. All the characters in the painting are exactly like Mona Lisa except that they don't smile. The painter speculated that the Mona Lisa without a smile might be a manuscript drawn by the author at the same time.