2006-10-02 23:18:10 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Other - Entertainment
Many researchers have tried to explain why the smile is seen so differently by people. The explanations range from scientific theories about human vision to curious supposition about Mona Lisa's identity and feelings. Professor Margaret Livingstone of Harvard University has argued that the smile is mostly drawn in low spatial frequencies, and so can best be seen with one's peripheral vision. Thus, for example, the smile appears more striking when looking at the portrait's eyes than when looking at the mouth itself. Christopher Tyler and Leonid Kontsevich of the Smith-Kettlewell Institute in San Francisco believe that the changing nature of the smile is caused by variable levels of random noise in human visual system.
Dina Goldin, Adjunct Professor at Brown University, has argued that the secret is in the dynamic position of Mona Lisa's facial muscles, where our mind's eye unconsciously extends her smile; the result is an unusual dynamicity to the face that invokes subtle yet strong emotions in the viewer of the painting.
It is also notable that Mona Lisa has no visible facial hair at all - including eyebrows and eyelashes. This is probably because it was common at this time for genteel women to pluck them off, since they were considered to be unsightly.For modern viewers this adds to the slightly mysterious semi-abstract quality of the face.
2006-10-02 23:50:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is believed that when this work was done Monalisa had just given birth to a child.
That is why the expression of smile is so complete that it gives every kind of impression on different observers.
2006-10-05 12:25:59 · answer #2 · answered by ♪¢αpη' ε∂ïß♪ ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i may be wrong but this is what i know...............
some experts believe that Mona Lisa is none other than Leonardo da Vinci dressed up as a woman. He is smiling so because he has this secret which he feels no one else will ever know.
2006-10-03 08:46:26 · answer #3 · answered by swordfish 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the face is the index of the mind,monalisa is not an exception...we also know that no man can or could or will never b able to find what is in a women's mind.... there's your answer even if da vinci comes alive he wont b able to answer your question.....
2006-10-03 06:31:04 · answer #4 · answered by surya 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the recent research sited that it was due the fact that she was pregnant at the time!
this is not that recent tho' i read it in Delhi 'the times' about 2005...think so!
2006-10-03 08:54:02 · answer #5 · answered by roselia_01 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
she had ROTTEN teeth man,why alse would anyone smile like that? look at the era.
2006-10-03 06:26:36 · answer #6 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
She has a magic smile with sadness look..
The magic thing that when you are sad ,you look to her you see her sad too.. and when you are happy , you look to her you find her happy too. this is her magic smile.
Try it...........
2006-10-03 06:29:50 · answer #7 · answered by Sousy 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
statue never cry,so the best alternative is smile.
2006-10-03 11:09:32 · answer #8 · answered by jigyashu 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
She just cut a f*rt and thinks no one knows it was her.
2006-10-03 06:26:29 · answer #9 · answered by al p 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the cutie face of urs.
2006-10-03 06:21:59 · answer #10 · answered by Ricky raj 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋