Art Appreciation: Context of the "Mona Lisa"

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Being able to bring some ideas, some understanding of design to our viewing can sort of help you sort things out. But, it's still usually connected to what you understand as being the content of the picture. That is, the basic "what is the picture about?" Is it a landscape, it is a figure is it a portrait. And, probably the most famous portrait in existence must be the Mona Lisa and here we have three modern interpretations of the Mona Lisa. One with Monica Lewinsky's face, one with Ms. Piggy's face and one that sort of has taken her eye apart and sort of collaged it and added an idea of time. And, so these are all like placing another meaning on the original meaning, which was, you know, this one shows it best in a way. You know a portrait. It's just a portrait of a person. Why the portrait of Mona Lisa remains the most famous portrait in the world, people have written volumes on that. But, you can see that, you know, even today, we find it important, so that we can start using it to make comments about our own society based on a portrait made many many years ago. And, sometimes it is keeping true to the whole thing and just changing a facet of it and sometimes it is reconfiguring it all together and talking about the passage of time.

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