Critique of Mona Lisa Essay

J.M.W. Turner By Peter Milnes J.M.W. Turner was an English landscape painter. He had a very interesting artistic life from his budding childhood to his unfortunate death. He created beautiful works of art now exhibited in many places of the world. I picked him because I have had many experiences with his art, and I love his style of painting, especially how he made light realistic. Examples of this can be seen when light shines on water or when the moon is present. This and the amount of…

How has mental illness changed humanity? I personally liked watching the TED video on “how metal illness changed human history” because the speaker pointed some things out in his video that I wasn’t aware first. At the beginning of the video the speaker told his audience how his parents took him to Europe at the age of 12. There his parents brought him to a cave where he would see cave paintings for the first time in his life. I personally did not know that chose case paintings were in France or…

In this discussion I will be analyzing the content of arguably Leonardo Da Vinci’s most iconic painting the Mona Lisa. The first interesting fact I learned about this portrait is widely believed to depict a woman named Lisa Gherardini the wife a wealthy of a wealthy silk merchant named Francesco del Giocondo. Furthermore, Da Vinci is thought to have intended to complete this portrait for the couple so they could commemorate the birth of their son, however he was never able to complete the…

For this second assignment, I have chosen to talk about dry media and wet media art works. “The dry media, which include metalpoint, chalk, charcoal, graphite, and pastel, consist of coloring agents, or pigments, that are sometimes ground or mixed with substances that hold the pigment together, called binders.”(p.165) I selected the composition “Study of a Woman's Head or the Angel of the Vergine delle Rocce, 1473” by Leonardo da Vinci. This is merely just a sketch of a woman's head from the…

During the processes of painting and repainting - the practice of applying paint and scraping it back off again - there are resultant blemishes, bumps, knocks and scratches that accumulate incrementally on the surface. Canning (2012) remarks that his paintings do not aim for “flawless” surfaces; rather “they’re marked, and they do tell the story of the history of their making”. The hereditary traits of Canning’s inheritance of his father’s trade can also be seen in works like “Lithium” (Fig 4-11…

I like the artist Leonardo da Vinci. My favorite work of his is "Mona Lisa". I find it very intriguing, because he is a very good artist, and he pays good attention to details. Leonardo da Vinci was born in the year of 1452 in Anchiano, Tuscany (now Italy) and died in the year of 1519 in Cloux, France. Also his parents were never married (just like me), then at an early age his mother married another man and started a new family. Da Vinci never had an advanced education, he was only tought basic…

Art Appreciation Project Leonardo Da Vinci is arguably one of the most famous artists in the world. He is known largely for a few of his paintings, one of them being the “Mona Lisa.” Leonardo Da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452. He was the illegitimate child of a Florentine notary and was raised by his father until he was fifteen, when he had his first apprenticeship working Andrea del Verrocchio. Leonardo grew up in a village near Florence, Italy. Most of his life was spent in a small town,…

Smiles And Women “Why Women Smile” by Amy Cunningham is a compelling piece that showcases why women smiling all the time is not as harmless as it may seem. She makes the reader, especially the women, ask themselves, “Is smiling all the time really a positive thing?” Cunningham gives multiple sound reasons as to why it is not, such as social pressures women receive to always smile. I agree that women have a complicated relationship with smiling, from being not fully in control of our smiles, to…

The Theft of the Mona Lisa In 1911, while being held at a museum in Paris, one of the world’s greatest and most famous paintings, the Mona Lisa, was stolen. To this day, this particular crime is one of the most popular and famous of all, but why? What makes this crime one of the most remembered? Well, there were lots of aspects to this story that make it so interesting. Somewhere between 1504 and 1519, the masterpiece called the Mona Lisa was created.(Totally History) A world famous artist,…

the general community have a large impact on spreading messages about women’s issues, portrayal of controversial topics have been depicted in popular films and other media sources. For the purposes of this analysis, I will reflect upon the film, Mona Lisa Smile (2003) in which women’s issues are finely portrayed regarding education, family roles, and the relation to social work practice. Background During the 1950’s, the United States had just emerged from World War II and society…