...whatever the medium or the mode of expression can be, the main thing is the way we can interpret the painting when we see it. In the following document we will be able to describe how two pieces of art “Mona Lisa” a portray by Leonardo Da Vinci and “Mona Loca” a graffiti by Abstrk can be similar in their forms but behind that, there is a vast difference in ideas, techniques and point of view of each artist. Mona Lisa is a masterpiece of the renaissance period characterized to look realistic and to bring the life out of the painting, while Mona Loca represents a contemporary art, a graffiti which displays surreal elements and less humanism in the artwork. The Mona Lisa is probably the most known piece of artwork in the entire world. It was painted by Leonardo Da Vinci, who was a famous Italian artist between 1504 and 1519. Da Vinci was a considered a Renaissance artist. He was a great painter, but also an observer, scientist and a great inventor who also studies some medicine and anatomy. This preparation allowed him to draw and paint it more accurately than any other artist of his time. Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece “Mona Lisa” or “La Gioconda” results in a painting that seems to be alive. This quality of being realistic is what makes Mona Lisa to fit into Renaissance artwork. Mona Lisa is figure of a woman, dressed in the fashion of her day and seated in a mountainous landscape. The general impression that this portrait gives is the great serenity, enriched by some mystery or even...
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...The story under analysis is “The Smile” by Ray Bradbury. Setting: The story is set in a city in the future after a nuclear war: in particular in the city square. Content : The main character of this story is Tom, a little boy who joins a group of people who are quering in front of a museum to spit on an oil painting belonging to the past, called the "Mona Lisa" by Leonardo da Vinci. People live a hard, difficult life and hate every aspect of the past of the past civilization which caused the nuclear war to break out destroyed their lawful haritage of progress and welfare. Tom is curious and he is quering up to see the portrait because they say it smiles. Tom likes going to festivals where remnants of the past are destroyed, concerning art, science, culture, and technology, but he is not so enraged with hate as the others are. When Tom sees the painting he finds the woman beautiful and he cannot take his eyes away from her smile. Suddenly, the people start destroying the painting and rip it into small pieces of canvas, behaving in a beastly, violent and wild manner. Tom gets a piece of canvas: the Mona Lisa's smile to preserve it from destruction. It was beautiful, warm and gentle and it produced in Tom feelings of affection, beauty and quietness. The secondary characters are Grigsby, Tom's father, his mother and his brother, and other unknown people. The smile is personified because it's the only expression of humanity in Tom's life. Point of view: Third -person...
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...Literacy Devices Metaphors A comparison without the use of ‘like’ or ‘as’. Example: “He’s a pig” is a metaphor Simile - figure of speech involving a comparison between unlike things using like, as, or as though. i.e. She floated in like a cloud. Personification - Attributing human or other animate characteristics to an inanimate object. Example: Clouds cry. Motif - any element, subject, idea or concept that is constantly present through the entire body of literature Irony. Conveys the opposite of what is meant or what would be expected. Examples: Saying “You’re so graceful!” to someone who has just tripped is verbal irony. A lifeguard drowning in a bathtub is irony of situation. A special kind of literary irony is when the reader (or viewer) knows something the character doesn’t. This is common in horror movies. An example of this is when the heroine runs to Jason for help, when we know he’s the slasher. Sarcasm is verbal irony with attitude, with a mean edge. Pathetic fallacy is a type of literary device whereby the author ascribes the human feelings of one or more of his/her characters to non-human objects or nature or phenomena. It is a type of personification, and is known to occur more by accident and less on purpose. e.g. The softly whistling teapot informed him it was time for breakfast. Hyperbole. Literary exaggeration. Examples: Gilgamesh and Enkidu carried thirty score pounds of weaponry. I’ll give you...
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...controversy they were painted over with veils and loincloths. The Last Judgment is monochromatic and flesh tones and sky colors dominate the work. Yellow, orange, green and blue are scattered throughout the painting. Michelangelo focuses on the action of human creatures quite different than Leonardo’s emphasis on perspective such as birds in flight. His art enhances the naturalism and he had a great skill at portraying profound emotions that make this painting striking. The painting is sort of obscure and has many different meanings. (Michelangelo’s Last Judgment: The Response) The second work of art I chose is the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci. He started this masterpiece in 1503 and finished it in 1506. It was painted with oil paints and it was painted on wood. Leonardo was one of the most famous painters of all time. The Mona Lisa is also one of the most well-known...
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...| Leonardo Da Vinci | Renaissance Man | | Jenny Bevier | 8/20/2010 | | Very few that have ever lived have been acknowledged as a genius. Leonardo Da Vinci was a renaissance man who was a true pioneer of his time. Though he is best known as an artist, he was far more than that. Leonardo was also an engineer, inventor, and scientist. He had one of the best scientific minds of his time. He carried out research in fields ranging from architecture and civil engineering to astronomy, anatomy, geography, geology, and paleontology. Leonardo was a renaissance man whose works of art and studies of mechanics and science paved the way for many artists, engineers, and doctors today. Da Vinci was born in 1452 in the small town of Anchiano, Italy. He was an illegitimate child of a Florentine Notary, Piero Da Vinci, and a peasant woman named Catrina (The World Wide Art Gallery, 2010, para. 2). Until the age of five Leonardo lived in the Hamlet of Anchiano with his mother. From 1457 on he lived with his father, grandparents, and uncle Fracesco in the small town of Vinci, Italy. Da Vinci never received a formal education. However, he was informally taught Latin, geometry, and mathematics by his stepmother Alberia, and her mother in law Monna Lucia. Also, he learned from scholarly textbooks that were owned by various family members. When Leonardo was fifteen, he was apprenticed to the artist Andrea Di Cione, known as Verrocchio. During this time is when Leonardo was...
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...Brittney Reed Professor Turner AR115 27 September 2014 The Mystery Surrounding Mona Lisa Mona Lisa is one of Leonardo da Vinci’s most poetic and famous pictures he painted. Painted in 1503-1505 with oil on a panel, the meaning of this most recognized painting in the world has left many wondering about the portrait’s meaning and why it has changed over time (Harris & Zucker, 2012). The evolution around the Mona Lisa painting has grown over the centuries after it was completed. This and many other of Leonardo da Vinci’s painting and writing has became ever so popular because of who the artist is and the detail and technique that he used in them. Another reason the it fascinates me and many others is when you are looking into her eyes they seem to follow you where ever you move. This gives an erie feeling that people in the recent decades thrive for in today’s decade. The painting is also very mysteries. Who is Mona Lisa? Who was she posing for? What is the little smirk on her face? As most of the portraits that were see in that era there are no smiling faces, a blank look if you will. Many say that Mona Lisa is the wife of a Florentine merchant and the painting was intended for her husband (Harris & Zucker, 2012). After Leonardo had finished the painting it was never given to the husband and Leonardo decided to keep it for himself as he went to work for the King of France, Francis I and why that is to this day remains a mystery (Harris & Zucker, 2012). Portraits...
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...AUTOBIOGRAPHY Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci Born on April 15, 1452, in Vinci, Italy, Leonardo da Vinci was the epitome of a “Renaissance man.” Possessor of a curious mind and keen intellect, da Vinci studied the laws of science and nature, which greatly informed his work as a painter, sculptor, architect, inventor, military engineer and draftsman. His ideas and body of work—which includes "Virgin of the Rocks," "The Last Supper" and "Mona Lisa"—have influenced countless artists and made da Vinci a leading light of the Italian Renaissance. Leonardo was, and is, renowned primarily as a painter. Among his works, the Mona Lisa is the most famous and most parodied portrait and The Last Supper the most reproduced religious painting of all time, with their fame approached only by Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam. Leonardo died at Clos Lucé, France, on May 2, 1519. François I had become a close friend. Vasari records that the King held Leonardo's head in his arms as he died, although this story, beloved by the French and portrayed in romantic paintings by Ingres, Ménageot and other French artists, may be legend rather than fact. Da Vinci has been called a genius and the archetypal Renaissance man. His talents inarguably extended far beyond his artistic works. Like many leaders of Renaissance humanism, he did not see a divide between science and art. STYLE OF PAINTING da Vinci’s Painting Technique Throughout his years (1452-1519), Leonardo da Vinci employed a variety of techniques...
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...Leonardo da Vinci - The Man Who Wanted To Know Everything Leonardo da Vinci was one of the greatest genius’s that’s ever lived, also known as the first modern mind. He was a painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance man, a man of "unquenchable curiosity" and "feverishly inventive imagination". He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived. 500 years ago he set out to try and find out all that there was to learn. “I would do things no one in the past has dared to do, I would think new thoughts, bring new things into being”. He created works of astonishing beauty such including the Mon Elisa, the most famous painting in the world and The Last Supper made him known today as the Renaissance visionary who saw the modern world before it was realized. At the same time he designed terrifying machines, which spewed death and destruction. He designed ways of getting man to the bottom of the sea, He invented flying machines 400 years before man took to the skies. Leonardo was born on April 15 1452, in Tuscan hill town just outside the village of Vinci in Italy. He was born illegitimate and this was to shape his life. Being a bastard he was barred from learning Greek and Latin, the languages all books where written in. ...
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...Michelangelo was one of the most inspiring artists history has ever seen. He possessed many extraordinary characteristics that made him into the imagine he is today. He was a perfectionist and hard-working. He communicated in his art and created things that no one else had created before. Most of all, he put his heart in everything he did. The Sistine Chapel, probably rated the most beautiful chapel, not only in Europe but also in the whole world, was painted by Michelangelo at the beginning of the 16th century. Michelangelo took four years of non-stop working to complete it. During those four years, Michelangelo started having serious health issues. He started having bad eyesight and his neck started having some issues from his awkward standing position. These health issues forced him to change body positions while painting and ended up lying down while painting. Despite these problems, he continued painting and two years after, the Pope attempted to convince Michelangelo to rush the final part and be done with it a year or two early. Michelangelo plainly rejected the idea and took his time. His product was magical. During his long, long life, Michelangelo suffered from many health problems including becoming slightly blind and having long term damage to his kidneys. Despite these, he kept on working with little rest. While he was painting the Sistine chapel, he went partly blind and started getting awful headaches from the position he was standing there Nevertheless, he...
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...Leonardo's Mona Lisa AR115 Introduction to the Visual Arts Park University Mr. Trevis Martin December 2, 2012 Leonardo's Mona Lisa The tetragrammaton simply means "four letters," YHWH; which stand for the name of the God of Israel, and means "to be." The proper pronunciation and spelling was too holy to say or write that it was lost centuries ago and cannot be found in any ancient writings; therefore, Israelis substituted the name to Yahweh, or Jehovah, but only pronounce and write Adoni which means Lord. There are some things that cannot be explained, and this sort of story is not only found in religion, it can also be found in art. She is called The Mona Lisa, a most-beautiful "strange image [that] strikes at the subconscious with a force that is extremely rare in an individual work of art" (Sassoon, 2003). Her popularity is beyond comprehension and colors and lines too deep to express, and one's words are lost when one looks at her gaze. Paul Zelanski and Mary Pat Fisher (2010) explain that "the word 'art' cannot be found in any English dictionary before 1880 and that even when it did appear it was used primarily with reference to painting" (Zelanski & Fisher, 2010, p.13). Furthermore, the Oxford Dictionary defines art as "the skillful production of the beautiful in visible forms" (qtd. in Zelanski & Fisher 13). This almost sounds like an oxymoron; "beautiful in visible forms." How can one produce beauty, or better yet, how can someone...
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...Analyzing Art Josh Bedard Rasmusen College Submitted for G125/HUM2023 Section 14 Humanities - 2014 Winter Quarter Analyzing Art The piece of art that I chose was the Mona Lisa. This is one of the most well-known pieces of art in the world. It is also covered in mystery. The painting is one of a woman named Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo. She is sitting in a chair looking at the painter. She has a subdued look on her face, yet if you look closely at her eyes and lips she almost has a smirk on her face. One that is trying to say “if they only knew what this painting was about.” As if it was meant for as a clue for one or two few special people to see and not the everyday person. I like many people are not sure what the reasoning behind this painting is. The painting could have been for just a painting or as some people think it could have been for a whole other reason. Some think that it could be a female version of the painter himself or have hidden meaning within the painting. When looking at this painting I think there is a story behind it. I think her eyes tell you a story that many people may not see. I think that there is a reason for this painting that many have not looked at. It almost seems like she is trying not to laugh while posing for the painting. As if what she is wearing and the way she is posing is as if she is trying to trick everyone who will be looking at the painting. This painting show perfectly what the...
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...verifiably there. The configuration of the eBook simply temporarily occupies a space on a screen, and once digitized back into storage it can no longer be said to exist in the same way. (Striphas 24) Words printed in a book have an inherent immortal nature. Regardless of the screen size, number of pixels, or memory capacity, there is no e-reader that could ever evoke such a feeling of permanency. Our current society is one that quite literally has a need for both immediate satisfaction and convenience. At some point, there seems to have been some sort of disconnect between an audience who genuinely appreciates art in all its forms, and those who have traded in their passion for a life of gadgets. Just as there is no comparison of viewing the Mona Lisa in the Louvre to viewing a digital image of it, perhaps even on the most sophisticated of computer screens, there is no substitute for the sensorial feeling of holding a...
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...books, television shows and films. The Smile" is set in the future after warfare has destroyed nearly all traces of civilization. Cities have been reduced to junk piles and cornfields glow with radioactivity at night. The survivors of this warfare wear soiled gunnysack clothing. Their homes are caves and other semi-dwellings that can give them even a measure of protection from the icy weather. Their spirits are as cold as the winter weather because they are filled with hatred for the past; the past has caused their present to be miserable and deplorable.In this society where beauty is nonexistent and where only hatred and destruction remain, the young boy Tom,the main character, stands in a queue, waiting his turn to view "the smile," the Mona Lisa. As each man passes by the portrait, he "appreciates" it by spitting upon it. However, when Tom's turn comes to spit upon the painting, his mouth is dry. All that he can say is "She's beautiful!" The crowd surges forward on Tom, ripping and destroying the portrait. Tom, in blind imitation, also grabs at the canvas and is successful in tearing off a small portion. When he arrives at his silo home later that night, he gently opens the crumpled fragment of canvas that he has held so tightly. There in his hand is her smile. He thinks that it is lovely and holds it close...
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...pond. The “flies” and the “air’s dragonfly” zoom about silently shouting their “death-cries everywhere hereabouts.” The interesting paradox of silent cries gives a certain level of depth to the insect life as well. This 3-D imagery is the manifestation of the poet’s admiration for nature’s complexity and the complexity that the water lily provides. The language Hughes uses personifies nature as well. Nature becomes a woman with “two faces,” those of which being the mentioned viewable and hidden worlds of the pond. The extended metaphor of nature as a woman is an elegant and extremely effective representation of the elaborateness the pond setting yields and what the artist must capture. As the famous art work of Leonardo Da Vinci, the Mona Lisa, provides a tranquil and relatively plain young face of woman on which numerous, and indecipherable emotions contort upon, so to the painting of the water lily must reflect the emotions of the nature it synchronizes with. In addition to the emotions a woman yields, she...
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...Summary of Reading two • Rapid technology progress during the twentieth century led to an ever increasing specialization in many different professions except art • Miró was an expert in investigating all the possibilities to be found in materials, forms, and colors • Miró’s art is highly diverse and wasn’t just limited to painting; he explored other fields as well, such as: sculptor, graphic work, tapestry, ceramics, and theatre • Joan Miró had the same name as his paternal grandfather who was a blacksmith in Tarragona • Miró’s father left Tarragona and went to Barcelona to become a jeweler and watchmaker. • Miró’s travels between Majorca and Tarragona heavily influenced his art and made him feel a very strong affinity for the country side • As a young boy, Miró was heavily influenced by Barcelona art such as the Romanesque paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts and Gaudi’s buildings • Miró gained a passion for the Mediterranean sea in Majorca as opposed to his home in Barcelona. This was because he thought that Barcelona was a city that had turned its back to the sea • Miró had a strong sense of his Catalan identity due to the knowledge he gained of his country when he visited the Catalan countryside. This led to him displaying a lot of his Catalan pride in his paintings throughout his career • In these early drawings you can see scenes, colors and objects that Miró included in his last pieces, such as feet which were one of his obsessions • In the summer of 1918, Miró has a...
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