Enigmatic Smile of the Mona Lisa
Leonardo de Vinci has united in a single smile, two expressions which still attract and push back each other without being able to separate. Mona Lisa's smile is particularly mysterious because of a double aspect, the constructing principle of which I use in my sculpture Nostalgia, inspired I was by a Michael Angelo's drawing of Cleopatra.
The tranquil smile of Mona Lisa (right side of the face) has welcomed the deep gaze of her painter. He, who is very close to her, had crossed over the light mist of Mona Lisa's eyes to give her flesh a form in harmony with the brilliance of her heart.
Look at the photo upside-down and you will notice that the lightest area, golden like the sun situated around the heart, is right in the centre of the composition. How he must have felt the beatings of this heart to be able to represent embroidery imperceptible to the naked eye, transparently beneath the veil. This really proves that the veil had been added later. This proximity accentuates the intensity of the ethereal nature of the Union of the model with her painter, born from the long moments of silence during poses.
Mona Lisa’s upper lip is subtly ready to half-open as if it was on the point of offering its sensuality to the pure gaze that warmed her heart. The upper lip in the other half is firmer. It shows a kind of restraint, nevertheless very gentle, strengthened by the arising firm cheek, which conveys the wilful side of Leonardo da Vinci.
The little roundness of the chin, slightly lifted in relation to the bottom of a well-covered jaw is due to a muscular contraction. This kind of uncontrollable contraction comes from the emotion of holding back tears, whether of sadness or happiness.
Leonardo da Vinci still had worked on this painting till the end of his life. Perhaps, before leaving this material world, had he wanted to indicate what had been his full life quest: the experience of Love. Had it been a human experience before becoming a mystical experience? The modification of 2 fingers of Mona Lisa's left hand gives the feeling, anatomically perfect, that she had been hidding a hankerchief. Was she suffering from a cold, or did she cry a little? I do not think that Leonardo da Vinci would have made this modification for a cold. Did he wish to show through this intimate hidden symbol, the suffering caused by the separation of mutual love, vibrating beyond morals built through rules and social standards? Is this a symbol of Universal Love of its incarnated soul, suffering from the nostalgic separation from the Whole : this kind of nostalgic love, which Rûmi and Hafiz are longing with in their poems ?
From this profound etheral Union, the gaze of both as well as their lips had united for ever into a unique one, painted in this portrait conveying so, the vibration of a very high level of a love which defies the limits of the time and space. THE END
Coopyrightfrance 2007 n° J24V271
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The tranquil smile of Mona Lisa (right side of the face) has welcomed the deep gaze of her painter. He, who is very close to her, had crossed over the light mist of Mona Lisa's eyes to give her flesh a form in harmony with the brilliance of her heart.
Look at the photo upside-down and you will notice that the lightest area, golden like the sun situated around the heart, is right in the centre of the composition. How he must have felt the beatings of this heart to be able to represent embroidery imperceptible to the naked eye, transparently beneath the veil. This really proves that the veil had been added later. This proximity accentuates the intensity of the ethereal nature of the Union of the model with her painter, born from the long moments of silence during poses.
Mona Lisa’s upper lip is subtly ready to half-open as if it was on the point of offering its sensuality to the pure gaze that warmed her heart. The upper lip in the other half is firmer. It shows a kind of restraint, nevertheless very gentle, strengthened by the arising firm cheek, which conveys the wilful side of Leonardo da Vinci.
The little roundness of the chin, slightly lifted in relation to the bottom of a well-covered jaw is due to a muscular contraction. This kind of uncontrollable contraction comes from the emotion of holding back tears, whether of sadness or happiness.
Leonardo da Vinci still had worked on this painting till the end of his life. Perhaps, before leaving this material world, had he wanted to indicate what had been his full life quest: the experience of Love. Had it been a human experience before becoming a mystical experience? The modification of 2 fingers of Mona Lisa's left hand gives the feeling, anatomically perfect, that she had been hidding a hankerchief. Was she suffering from a cold, or did she cry a little? I do not think that Leonardo da Vinci would have made this modification for a cold. Did he wish to show through this intimate hidden symbol, the suffering caused by the separation of mutual love, vibrating beyond morals built through rules and social standards? Is this a symbol of Universal Love of its incarnated soul, suffering from the nostalgic separation from the Whole : this kind of nostalgic love, which Rûmi and Hafiz are longing with in their poems ?
From this profound etheral Union, the gaze of both as well as their lips had united for ever into a unique one, painted in this portrait conveying so, the vibration of a very high level of a love which defies the limits of the time and space. THE END
Coopyrightfrance 2007 n° J24V271