The figures in the painting sit gracefully, with implicit smiles and deep mountains and rivers as the background, vividly showing the painter's unique smoky "aerial perspective" brushwork. The painter tried to skillfully combine the rich inner feelings of the characters with the beautiful shapes. For the key parts of the portrait face, such as the corners of the eyes, lips, etc., he also pays special attention to mastering the dialectical relationship between precision and implication, so as to achieve the charm, thus making Mona Lisa's smile have eternal mysterious charm, which is called "mysterious smile" by many art historians.
In addition to smiling, as far as this painting is concerned, it is more important to express Leonardo da Vinci's feelings and social background when painting.
The first is the mystery of smile. Sometimes she smiles comfortably and gently, sometimes she looks serious, sometimes she looks a little sad, and sometimes she even reveals ridicule and ridicule. In a painting, the change of light can't be as different as in sculpture. However, on Mona Lisa's face, dim shadows appear and disappear, covering her eyes and lips with a veil. And people's smiles are mainly manifested in the corners of the eyes and corners of the mouth. Finch, on the other hand, tends to draw these parts vaguely without clear boundaries, which is why there is such an elusive "mysterious smile".
As an important art form, painting is more easily accepted by the audience because it can directly see the artistic image, but it has limitations and can only show a relatively static moment. Excellent paintings are good at choosing the most general and expressive moment of people or things, so that this fixed moment can show the beauty that can travel through time and space and exude eternal charm. Da. Finch keenly grasped the moment when Mona Lisa smiled and described her calm expression. Look at her faint smile, this artificial line and charm, reminiscent of the poem "The wind rises at first and wrinkles a pool of spring water".
Under the influence of humanism, Leonardo da Vinci focused on expressing people's feelings. In composition, da? Finch changed the habit of using the side bust or reaching the chest when painting portraits in the past, and replaced it with a positive bust. The perspective point rises slightly, making the composition pyramid-shaped, and the Mona Lisa looks more dignified and steady. When painting, it reminds da? Finch's memory of Albee, his biological mother, seemed to see the image of her biological mother from Lisa's figure, and Lisa became the mysterious incarnation of arbilla. So when the master painted Lisa, he painted it with sincere and pure feelings. He painted the portrait of this man with double feelings for his mother and lover. Not only that, he also described her as an ideal, a symbol of beauty, a joy and light of the human world. He wants to convey his beauty and experience to everyone with a brush. With the arrival of the Renaissance, God stepped down from the altar and became a man of flesh and blood, with feelings and desires.
Leonardo da Vinci was in the European Renaissance, and before the Renaissance was the era of religious rule. After 1000 years of cruel and ignorant feudal rule and the spiritual destruction of Christian asceticism, western Europeans have long lost their right to freedom of thought and happy life. All the joys and sorrows in real life are regarded as violating the dogma of God. Therefore, in the portraits of the Middle Ages, the Virgin Mary, Jesus and ordinary people are always so dull and rigid and expressionless. Until the arrival of the Renaissance, everything changed, and the long-lost smile returned to this world, especially to the liberated women's faces. That smile is full of self-confidence and optimism of new people in the new era, full of their desire for the future and the desire for truth, goodness and beauty.
Leonardo da Vinci is the most outstanding representative of Italian Renaissance art and one of the most important representatives of the whole European Renaissance movement. Engels praised the "giants" of the Renaissance, and he was the first to list them. As an artist closely related to the times, he keenly felt this and showed it with genius. He swept away the gloomy and ghostly shadows in the past portrait text and drew a free and easy and clear smile. He used his artistic image to declare to the theological rule and asceticism that suppressed human nature in the Middle Ages in Europe: people are liberated from asceticism, it is no longer a tangible thing, and without the cultivation of secular desires, people can smile at people! Therefore, Mona Lisa has a strong spirit of the times. Mona Lisa's smile not only became an important feature of this portrait, but also became a typical female beauty in the Renaissance, vividly reflecting the spiritual beauty of a new era.
Mona Lisa, like a bright rose, pierced the darkness and silence in the middle of the night, injected a ray of fragrance and hope into people's hearts, and became a symbol that painters could let go of their hands and feet to praise truth, goodness and beauty, and became a symbol that Western Europeans ended their long and painful medieval life. As Engels said, "this is the turning point of the greatest progress people have made through suffering." This is the historical significance of Mona Lisa.