The Importance Of The Mona Lisa By Leonardo Da Vinci

Art is a way to see life through a picture, sculpture, and as well a song. It tells its own story and the story within the person looking at it; it brings awareness and shines light on topics that is not normally brought up in a typical international conversation. Leonardo da Vinci, a man who is famous for his painting the “Mona Lisa”, left the world guessing exactly the meaning behind the painting. The picture is a world renowned piece of art. There are many things that contribute to the fame of the Mona Lisa, in part I believe that give the portrait its fame. The portrait became legendary because of the actually person who create the Mona Lisa, technique, and the actually portrait itself, in which I believe enhanced the status of the

All over the world the portrait has been used and seen, in which, gives people the chance to see it without really going to the ends of the earth to view it in person. Although it is not the original painting itself, it gives people an idea of what the world is talking about. Just like any other icon, once you become an icon nothing can take that away from you or something. It stands alone on its own. So many people admire the painting they use it today in commercials. McDonald’s used the “Mona Lisa” to advertise for a Big Mac. In the commercial “da Vinci was painting Mona and she wouldn’t smile until she took a bit out of the Big Mac sandwich, and that is how the Mona Lisa was created”. With all the unanswered questioned about the “Mona Lisa” this painting will never lose its fame. If someone could answer all the questions the portrait entails the painting would remain still remain famous because it took so long for the mysteries to be revealed. Moreover, the fact that the painting was not painted on a canvas but on a piece of wood, in which gives the painting another piece of uniqueness. Although da Vinci painted on wood panels, it is rare today to fine someone to use the same kind of canvas as da