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What's so wonderful about it?

For hundreds of years, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece Mona Lisa has fascinated the world with its mysterious smile. As for the real meaning behind this smile, because the world has different interpretations, it has become a big mystery in the history of art. According to Agence France-Presse 65438+February 14, recently, the computer of the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands used an algorithm to calculate the secret of Mona Lisa's smile. With the help of computer emotion recognition software, scientists found that Mona Lisa's smile contains four emotions: 83% happiness, 9% disgust, 6% fear and 2% anger. The software first makes a "universal expression" template according to the faces of young women in the database, and then identifies human emotions by comparing key facial features such as the radian of wrinkles around lips and eyes with the template. At present, this software can recognize six basic emotions: happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear and sadness. The true meaning of a smile is still a mystery. Professor Thomas Huang, who participated in the research, said frankly, "In order to interpret Mona Lisa's smile more accurately, we need to discuss the real meaning behind the subtle expressions on human faces with psychologists and artists." Cynthia McVey, a psychologist at the University of Glasgow in England, tries to analyze the ambivalence of Mona Lisa from a psychological perspective. "Da Vinci wanted to paint her, which made Mona Lisa very happy. But she is a little disgusted with being painted by an old man. The reason why she is angry is that she has been sitting there for a long time, but Da Vinci has not finished painting. " Professor Donald Sasson of the University of London in the United Kingdom believes that Leonardo da Vinci deliberately hides the true feelings of the model, thus leaving a huge room for imagination. Leonardo da Vinci believed that man was the most sacred. The human body is the most beautiful image in nature. His many measurements have proved that the proportion between various parts of the human body is an integer ratio, so the human body presents the most harmonious beauty, which is called "sacred proportion". He said: "Whoever does not respect life is not worthy of life." "Mona Lisa" is exactly what he praised the beauty of human beings with a real female smile, called for the awakening of human nature and praised the loveliness of life. Embodies his philosophy of life. Mona Lisa's right hand is considered to be the most beautiful hand in the world art history. Although the modern photography technology with advanced science is superb, if we compare this hand with modern photography, people can still see that this hand has a sense of volume, weight and vitality. Almost completely between the middle fingers, people seem to hear the beauty of music and feel the joy of Mona Lisa at that moment. It is difficult for modern photography to record this inner charm. /kloc-Many painters at the beginning of the 0/6th century often paid attention to the correctness of characters, tight outlines, accurate lines and clear details, and as a result, their images were often lifeless. A rigid "sleeping beauty" appeared, and only Leonardo da Vinci raised the vividness to a higher level; Created many vivid images. However, since the publication of Mona Lisa, it is Mona Lisa's "mysterious smile" that people admire and argue endlessly. What is the reason for Mona Lisa's "mysterious smile"? What does her smile mean? Some people say this is a "charming smile", some people say this is an "evil smile", some people think this is an incomprehensible mysterious smile, which is an eternal mystery. In fact, the Mona Lisa's smile seen from the picture is a kind of self-confidence and optimism. And this is what happened after the long darkness of the Middle Ages. People are awakening from the pressure of Christian theology to pursue the characteristics of a new life. The Mona Lisa in the painting not only shows her Wen Ya, nobility and happiness, but also shows her joy and happiness in the new world and new life. There is no doubt and fear here, and there are no traces of the characters in the works of medieval painters who are dull, cold and full of fear of the world. Unlike the lifeless people in medieval portraits who are slaves of God, Mona Lisa is a vivid image full of youth and vitality. Leonardo da Vinci used his Mona Lisa to show people's new mental outlook in that era, revealing people's yearning, optimism and self-confidence for a new life. At the same time, he also expressed warm praise for the people who got rid of the bondage of God and their beauty. Mona Lisa's smile endowed the figure with infinite artistic conception. Both its own harmonious poetry and its profound and extensive sociological and historical implications have reached an unparalleled height. From this perspective, Mona Lisa's smile is also a swan song. In Mona Lisa's body, rational principle and lofty poetry, lofty spirit and vivid body, emotion and reason, science and art are harmoniously and perfectly unified. This is the complete image of Renaissance people. It is an outstanding example of man's all-round development in the course of human history. Mona Lisa shows the great ideological meaning of the times and amazing artistic attainments, so people have been full of enthusiasm for its eternal charm for centuries. After Leonardo finished painting this painting, he kept it with him as a treasure. It was not until his death that he was collected by King Francis I of France. Now this painting is treasured in the Louvre Museum in Paris.