The Mona Lisa: Famous Art

The Mona Lisa is a famous oil painting, painted by Leonardo da Vinci. Da Vinci painted it during the Italian Renaissance during the years 1503 to 1506 give or take. It is a painting of a women who as described as having a mysterious expression. Her stature is what has caused it so much fascination. It was once stolen and then recovered from the Louvre. Hardly any other artworks have ever been so studied as the Mona Lisa.

It was said that da Vinci never finished it, but is thought that da Vinci continued painting it and finished it right before he died. It had traveled throughout France before it was finally noticed, appreciated, and associated with feminine charm in the mid-19th century. The Mona Lisa was a painting of Lisa del Giocondo. He named it Mona Lisa because the word Monna was a contraction of Madonna, a respectful form of address to someone similar to how we call some women ma’am or madam. So, he called it Mona Lisa for Lisa del Giocondo’s husband.

This spectacular painting is now put up on display in a special frame. It is also cleaned and touched-up in order to preserve it. The painting is being displayed in the museum's Salle des États. It is in a purpose-built, climate-controlled enclosure behind bullet-proof glass and is seen by millions at the Louvre each year. The painting is currently worth $700 million dollars.

The Art of Expression

Expression is defined as an indication of feeling, spirit, character, etc., as on the face, in the voice, or in artistic execution. It is an art that not all people have a grasp on and not all people know how to do it on perpose and not just naturally. In drama, actors use Expression to help the audience know how they are feeling and make the play, musical, or movie better. Without the art of Expression the world would be very boring. Can you imagine if everyone looked bored when they talked or if everyone was always hyper? It would be very tedious.

Expression is an everyday art that people take for granted. Expression is an art that is a natural beauty.

The Art of Person

A person has two kinds of arts. There is the art of personality and the art of physical appearance.

A person can be beautiful in how they act, and how their personality is. A person who is nice, kind, generous, and considerate has an inner beauty. A person who is mean, disrespectful, rude, and selfish looks ugly and acts ugly. People tend to be drawn to a beautiful person either inner or outer beauty and beauty is art. All the time, people assess people by their outer beauty and want to hang out with them because the outer beautiful people are more popular. The inner beautiful person takes longer to see. People are assessed by the outer, a fast assessment. What we need to do is as the old saying goes, stop and smell the roses but in this case, stop and look at the art.

The Art of Poetry

One definition of the word poetry is the art of rhythmical composition, written or spoken, for exciting pleasure by beautiful, imaginative, or elevated thoughts. Poetry is a form of expression just like any other art form. Poetry is used by poets to express what they feel or what they are experiencing.

Words, especially in poetry, are beautiful. When they are spoken in just the right way, they make the picture in your mind very beautiful. They can be awe inspiring words that paint pictures.

Poetry is an art of words. It has always been art and it will always be an art.

The Art of Dance

Dance is defined as an art form that generally refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting. Dance is an art that is the beauty of movement. Movement especially of the body.



Dance is an expression just like other forms of art. It takes the emotions and movement to show the beauty of it.

Art of Space

For the past week or two, I have been working on space in art. There are two kinds of space: positive and negative. Mostly I have been working with Negative space for those past two weeks and it is very interesting. We did art that concerns the space that is not solid around an object or objects. We drew that negative space and "doodled" init to make the poaitive space we didn't draw stand out.

Before that we had worked on positive space where we drew shoes with detail. We then made that space stand out by drawing texture around the poitive space. The dark colors of the texture made the black and white of the positive space stand out.

Space in itself helps form art to make things beautiful and adds depth. Space is an art.

The Art of Photography

Photography is an amazing form of art. When you are the photographer, you choose a form of natural beauty to take a picture of. If you are a child's photographer, you choose to take pictures of the beauty in children. Their sweet smiles and cute faces. If you are a landscape photographer, you take the beauty from what God gave us through nature. Their are so many different subjects to take pictures of what you take pictures of can lead to meaning in the art.

There is also the colors of the Photograph that is part of the art. It could hint at what the hidden meaning can be. It can just be what makes something in ordinary life more beautiful and make us see what beauty we see every day.

Photographers are artists. Their paintbrush is their camera, their canvas is picture paper, and their subject is the world.