What Is The Mood Of Mona Lisa

The oil wood painting, “ Mona Lisa” by Leonardo da Vinci is one of the most famous paintings from the Renaissance. The painting is a portrait of Lisa Gherardini who was the wife of wealthy Florentine silk merchant Francesco del Giocondo. Apparently, the painting was to celebrate the birth of their second son, Andrea. The author created a mysterious mood through his use of sformato, mute color, and the setup of the portrait. The Mona Lisa is an example of Vinci’s mastery of the sformato, the technique of allowing tones and colors to shade gradually into one another, producing softened outlines or hazy forms. In this painting technique, the artist blends smoothly the transition from one color the another. His use of sformato is visible in the

The background landscape behind the subject using aerial perspective, which means the artist created the background by using smoky blues and meaningless points. Lso, Leonardo Da Vinci used cold colors such as dark greens, grays, and even blacks. In the painting you can see the landscape he painted in the background of the subject. When you look closely at it you can see it’s in a way a gloomy but also mysterious mood. Usually, the background of a picture is a the sky, the sunset, or even blank screens. In Da Vinci’s he draws not only the typical river, and sky, but mountains and bridges. The mountains look like the Grand Canyon because it’s dry with hot reddish brown rocks which makes people fairly confused because there is no where in Italy with that landscape. The unknown location adds on to the mystery because if the artist did not mix cold colors with warm and drew just a blue and gray sky than the mood of the painting would have been different. All in all, the imbalance and the use of muted color scheme displays the mood of the Mona Lisa to be sad, gloomy, and

The protirat shows “ Mona Lisa” sitting upright and sideways in a chair with her face and chest towards the front of the painting. Also, her facial expression is really mysterious because the direction of her eyes and her notorious smile. Like in creepy halloween movies where it shows a person going into a mansion and all the painting are in a way following them. The painting shows “Mona Lisa” gazing at the viewer, and it is said that if you move across the room while looking into her eyes, they’ll follow you. This is because the way the artist place of the subject’s eye and the direction. In addition to her eye direction, the artists creates questions when he made the subject have a smile which is really weird. When drawing a portrait, the subject has to sat in the same position from hours while the artist draws them so why was she smiling for so long. What made “Mona Lisa” smile ? The big question that has been ask for centuries but no one knows. The creepy eyes and smile of the “Mona Lisa” depict a puzzling