Mona Lisa Comparison

The Mona Loca doesn’t need your approval:

She is comfortable with who she is The Mona Lisa is one of the most famous art works of all time by the Italian artist Leonardo Da Vinci. This portrait was done in oil and it is a piece that looks very real. On the other hand, “Wynwood’s Finest” is a well-known mural by Abstrk, who is an artist from Miami. This piece is graffiti on a wall and it looks more animated, fiction like, than the Mona Lisa.

Abstrk thinks women in our culture today have more physical and emotional freedom of expression since culture is a somewhat more acceptable than before, he thinks women are stronger now than ever and are responsible for their own choices and who they want to be.

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The Mona Lisa is wearing a long sleeve dress that is not revealing at all, she doesn’t show any skin in an inappropriate way while the Mona Loca is wearing a very short dress that shows a lot of cleavage and her nipples as well. She is also wearing net tights with money tucked in them that show her thick legs and tattoos on them; meanwhile the Mona Lisa does not show anything from the waist down. Da Vinci also gave the Mona Lisa, a thin vail over her hair, but Abstrk did not put anything over the Mona Loca’s head. The Mona Loca has a cigarette in her hand, while the Mona Lisa does not have anything in her hands. It seems like the Mona Loca has more freedom because she has tattoos all over her body which tells she makes her own the decisions to do what she wants to do with her body. Also, she wears what she wants and she doesn’t seem to care what others would think about it. However, the Mona Lisa’s wardrobe says that she is conservative and reserved, it looks as if this type of clothing is what she had to wear in order to be accepted by her culture in that time. In contrary, the Mona Loca doesn’t feel as if she needs to be accepted by anyone. But, the Mona Lisa proves how reserved she had to be by wearing a vail over her head. She is not be able to free her hair (which could be a sign of sexuality to her culture) or look provocative in any way. Whereas, by holding a cigarette in her hands, the Mona Loca demonstrates

In both paintings both of the women have their hands in a position where they look like they are posing for the picture. But, the Mona Loca looks like she is doing it in a way to make fun of because she has the cigarette in her hand, while the Mona Lisa’s posing seems like she was told to pose this way for the picture, meaning she had no say to how the picture had to be. The Mona Lisa has a veil on her head which symbolizes that she had to be restrained and modest and that she wasn’t able to express herself if she wanted to. The demons and the angel in the Mona Loca is a symbol of good and evil in the culture. The skull is a symbol of death and the screaming face means desperation. The Mona Loca has money tucked in her stockings symbolizing that she is an independent woman, that she makes her own money regardless of the situation. The bullet holes in her face mean that she has gone through tough situations, but she is still fine. Empty bottles in the floor symbolize that she has been drinking, maybe to forget problems that she has. The cigarette that the Mona Loca has in her hand means that she is smoking because she is stressed. The window with blue a blue sky, a tree, and green grass is a symbol of hope, hope that it can get better and she can get there. Abstrk’s intention