What's the secret of Mona Lisa's smile?

This is a famous painting that everyone is familiar with. The figures in the painting sit gracefully, with implicit smiles and deep mountains and rivers as the background, vividly showing the painter's unique smoky "aerial perspective" brushwork. The painter tries to skillfully combine the rich inner feelings of the characters with the beautiful shapes, and pays special attention to the dialectical relationship between precision and implication in the key parts of the face, such as the corners of the eyes and the corners of the lips, so as to achieve the effect of charm. Therefore, Mona Lisa's smile has mysterious and eternal charm. For 500 years, people have been unable to agree on the mysterious smile of Mona Lisa. Different audiences or at different times look and feel different. I think she sometimes smiles comfortably and gently, sometimes looks serious, sometimes looks slightly sad, and sometimes even reveals ridicule and ridicule. In a painting, the change of light can't be as different as in sculpture. However, on Mona Lisa's face, dim shadows appear and disappear, covering her eyes and lips with a veil. And people's smiles are mainly manifested in the corners of the eyes and corners of the mouth. Finch, on the other hand, tends to draw these parts vaguely without clear boundaries, which is why there is such an elusive "mysterious smile". We will watch the picture for a long time and can't bear to divert our attention. First of all, we will be impressed by the wonderful light and shadow effects. The layering of blooming shows rich space and realistic texture, and the borderless morphological transition and color change are centuries ahead of our contemporaries. The real magic is not skill, but the mysterious smile that appears and disappears in that moment is fascinating. That smile is too shallow, no matter how close you are, you can't see it clearly; However, as long as you see the painting, no matter how far away, you can feel the smile. Smiling is not only reflected in the upturned corners of the mouth, but also in every part of the face and even every corner of the picture, so that viewers can enjoy the Mona Lisa while smiling. The feeling of facing the original is irreplaceable elsewhere, and the Mona Lisa in the Louvre is destined to be preserved forever. Indeed, people will get different feelings when they appreciate this painting from different angles and under different light. That smile is sometimes gentle, sometimes serene and serious, sometimes slightly sad, and sometimes somewhat ironic and ridiculous. The mysterious smile reveals the mysterious spiritual activities of the characters.

In the era controlled by Christian asceticism, women's behavior is subject to many constraints. The most important thing is that she also shows people's ideological emancipation and opposition to religion in the16th century. Without permission, they can't show their joy and pain, otherwise, it is a "blasphemy" to God, and among ordinary upper-class women, they are not allowed to cry and laugh at will. Therefore, the portraits in the Middle Ages are generally drawn in a rigid and expressionless way. Under the influence of humanism, Leonardo da Vinci began to try his best to express people's feelings. In order to draw the true image of Mona Lisa, he also studied anatomy and physiology, explored the smiling state of facial muscles hidden under the skin, and studied the psychological changes and reaction process of people when they were relaxed and happy. In terms of composition, Leonardo da Vinci changed the habit of using side busts or chest-high busts in portraits in the past and replaced them with front busts. The perspective point rises slightly, making the composition pyramid-shaped. In this way, the Mona Lisa looks more dignified and steady. Mona Lisa has no gorgeous clothes, dark brown veil and no decoration; The natural folds of clothing patterns are carefully drawn. He used a mixed color to express the texture of soft satin. Bare breasts can't show the beauty of this woman's health, luxury and youth. When dealing with the background, Leonardo da Vinci used "aerial perspective". On the contrary, the cliffs, paths, stone bridges, trees and running water behind him are pushed to the distant depths, as if all of them were shrouded in mist, so as to strengthen the image status of the Mona Lisa. It took him four years to draw such a small portrait, which shows that Leonardo da Vinci not only wanted to draw a portrait of a noble lady in the19th century, but also sought artistic liberation.