Her Cryptic Smile

“Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa, men have named you
You’re so like the lady with the mystic smile
Is it only ‘cause you’re lonely they have blamed you
For that Mona Lisa strangeness in your smile.”

Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa painting, in the Louvre in Paris, is arguably the most famous painting in the world. It is probably also the best known example of sfumato, a painting technique partly responsible for her enigmatic smile. The painting had done a lot of controversies, theories, and arguments. A speculation such as it was a portrait of Lisa Gherardini whom was the wife of a Florentine cloth merchant called Francesco del Giocondo was a theory at once. Another one is that it was really a self-portrait of the artist. These accounts for Mona Lisa painting as “the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, and the most parodied work of art in the world”.

An enigmatic smile she has. Nobody knows I believe by this time, what her smile really means. Is it pure happiness, sadness, anger, being surprised, or no emotions at all? Her hesitating smile caused my curiosity grow. But I, do believe that she truly smiles in her figure, maybe because she’s really pregnant as what others think as well. She has that of a big tummy or stomach or abdomen or whatever it is. I just can’t explain what’s with that portrait that everyone who could see would really think of it. At first, I didn’t mind about that portrait, but as far as my memory reaches that art, I can’t help myself to think of it. I could only say that it was the desire on knowing every single thing behind that art I am searching for. That’s really a strange smile.

I probably need not more theories but that of a truth. But who could say so? Wondering time-travelling to da Vinci’s time and argue with him about that? That sounds pretty cool, but that’s perfectly impossible. No matter what others say, they’re probably not the truth.

This painting was awesome. It’s ordinary, unique, peerless, and incomparable, but it was an all-time art. I could say that it’s indeed a valuable and precious figure of art. Revealing the mystery behind the painting and more often with the enigmatic smile bringing worries and conflictions would definitely catch everyone’s attention. Still, the unrevealed would stay the best and for long.

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