The Mona Lisa and its Two Faces
So what is Leonardo da Vinci’s secret? No one will ever know. However, his technique is not a secret but a method that scientists may explore.
It is not my claim to be able to explain Leonardo da Vinci’s creative process. I use the affirmative method, as if I was integrating myself into his mental action of creation. For this, I am going to express myself on the process (and not the theme) that I myself followed in the creation of the bust of Cleopatra, that I named “Nostalgia”.
For this bust, I was inspired by a drawing by Michael Angelo from which a dimension of nostalgia radiates. From this theme, I defined my own essential idea of human as well as mystic nostaligia. Two faces were created and then merged into one.
Leonardo da Vinci also defined two dimensions in the Mona Lisa. These were the expression radiated by Mona Lisa and his own, merged one into another.
Travelling with Mona Lisa
Be my guest and come and meet both the Mona Lisa and Leonardo da Vinci behind the mirror of the pictorial subject.
Mark the centre of the space between the 2 eyebrows, to the bottom of the forehead.
Draw a vertical line and cut the sheet in half following this line.
Move the 2 pieces of the portrait apart and compare the expressions of each of the two halves of the face.
The force and mystery of this two-faced portrait lies in the closely bonded union of the two beings. This union lives through the pictorial immobility, beyond the agitation of this world, beyond the notion of time. This is what I call “the breathing of postural expression” The laws of anatomical and physiological balance require a harmonization that Leonardo da Vinci mastered perfectly.
Comments of the sculptor => => Mona Lisa : Resemblance to a commissioned portrait
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It is not my claim to be able to explain Leonardo da Vinci’s creative process. I use the affirmative method, as if I was integrating myself into his mental action of creation. For this, I am going to express myself on the process (and not the theme) that I myself followed in the creation of the bust of Cleopatra, that I named “Nostalgia”.
For this bust, I was inspired by a drawing by Michael Angelo from which a dimension of nostalgia radiates. From this theme, I defined my own essential idea of human as well as mystic nostaligia. Two faces were created and then merged into one.
Leonardo da Vinci also defined two dimensions in the Mona Lisa. These were the expression radiated by Mona Lisa and his own, merged one into another.
Travelling with Mona Lisa
Be my guest and come and meet both the Mona Lisa and Leonardo da Vinci behind the mirror of the pictorial subject.
Mark the centre of the space between the 2 eyebrows, to the bottom of the forehead.
Draw a vertical line and cut the sheet in half following this line.
Move the 2 pieces of the portrait apart and compare the expressions of each of the two halves of the face.
- The right half of the face (left sheet) is very feminine. It is that of Mona Lisa.
- The other side is made to look masculine (right sheet). It is that of Leonardo da Vinci blended into the traits of his model. (photo 2)
The force and mystery of this two-faced portrait lies in the closely bonded union of the two beings. This union lives through the pictorial immobility, beyond the agitation of this world, beyond the notion of time. This is what I call “the breathing of postural expression” The laws of anatomical and physiological balance require a harmonization that Leonardo da Vinci mastered perfectly.
Comments of the sculptor => => Mona Lisa : Resemblance to a commissioned portrait