Mona Lisa's Smile

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Mona Lisa's Smile
Mona Lisa portrait is really beautiful with
the breath of art. Hundreds of years past,
people still keep the eternal love and
appreciation to Mona Lisa from the period of
Renaissance to now due to his smiling. Why
Leonardo Da Vinci, famous artist portray a kind
of work? What his intention? What is he going to
say? From very young age, I started to think
about by my different brain and think there
must some abstruse philosophy which is
suitable for every age also refract
different souls of different people from
those times. Hundreds of years age, what people
pursuit is complete artistic environment. But
what is now? The birth place of Mona Lisa
Portrait---The West, I have not been there before
and I don't know more about it. We can see that
the modern Chinese society. The whole Country is
filled with the idea of money first. At
least, money is on the premise of all
negotiations. So the life important
negotiation is widely spread which also the
premise of marriage.
In the painting of The Bathers, the painter
Courbet portrayed the characters very clearly,
resulting in the contrast of the elegant overall
unity with the self-contained large background
space. The artist showed the ideal and the spirit
of the realistic paintings here. Two bathers
seemed like dancing together
, echoed with each other. The true value of this
painting was not the multiple meanings, but lied
in its showed simplicity, the unembellished
writing skills and the creative thought in
reality as the starting point. At that time,
the French Salon advocated Ingres's elegant naked
body shaping and the mannered lady portraits. For
the strong physical female workers painted
by Courbet, people did not feel the aesthetic
beauty. Even some famous critics or coeval
friends commented on this painting ironically.
The writer Merimee compared this painting with
the cannibalized savage in New Zealand. What
is more, some people gathered on the Courbet
exhibition, shouting the slogan of "Beating
Courbet".
Although Courbet was born in the vineyards of a
wealthy family, he showed the sympathy for the
people that were struggling at the bottom of the
society. The noble characters and the grand
historical themes were absolutely not found in
the paintings of Courbet. He was mainly based on
the simple working people. The contemporary
critics thought his paintings were ugly and
vulgar, but Courbet just wanted to through the
painting of The Bathers to show the simple and
strong life scene of the civilians and conveyed
the noble concepts from it.
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From the smiling of Mona Lisa, I see the
contradiction and freedom from the nature
development. At the premise of freedom, the
fundamental way is to let people work hard and
develop, so that the efficiency of the society
will be high. Also it can make people live
without complaints. If we work hard not
enough, we will lose the dream, and then you only
bow your head to the material. If your dream
comes true through a long way, it will be happy
finally. The biggest obstacle is fear on the way.
So, the people of different times and ideas from
hundreds of years are infatuated with the smiling
of Mona Lisa. Due to both its freedom idea
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showing the loser's willing and satisfaction
also the achiever's pride and happiness. Those
are the entire reasons for different kinds of
smiling from people.
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