The Mona Lisa painting by Leonardo Do Vinci is arguably the most famous painting in the world. As such it triggers a number of response from Artist as varied as Banksy to Duchamp, as an image that can question the role of Art in society. As the Mona Lisa is such an iconography, you will use this painting to develop your own interpretation of the painting, in the context of Malaysia. This means you are required to question notions of beauty, and image making. Research the *interpretation* of the Mona Lisa, and start to develop a rationale for you own understanding. Then produce your own version, using Malaysian culture and heritage, as the starting point. You will be expected to evidence your research, sketches, planning and final execution of the project.
For this task student need to conduct further information about the most famous painting "Monalisa". With the tittle of "Monalisa in Malaysia", students need to produce a painting of Monalisa in context of Malaysia.
- The surface suggested was paper and canvas.
- Medium can be mixed media the original format of Monalisa painting should be maintain but the size of artwork cannot be smaller than A1 size.
- Final artwork on paper should be mounted/framed properly
About the Monalisa
Lenordo da vinci was the creator of the Monalisa. He focused on his use of natural specific gravity, patterns, shapes, and symmetries on this painting. Why monalisa is so famous in the world? She famous is one of the most famous paintings in the world to stem from its technical mastery and mystique. Monalisa is a 16th century portrait painted in oil on a poplar by Leonard Da Vinci at the of Italian renaissance. The oil painting is one of many works by famed Italian artist and inventor, Leonardo Da Vinci. Besides that, he began the painting in 1503, even though it was not completed in four year. In 1516, painting was purchased by king François, the king of France at the same time. Why she called monalisa? In fact, monalisa an Italian name for Madonna, meaning “my lady”. Mona is like that a polite form of address, similar to madam or my lady in English. It is perhaps also the best known for example of “sfumato”, a painting skill partly responsible for her enigmatic smile. Sfumato is a painting skill in which is the colors to mix together softly into the each other rather than object or shapes having sharp outlines. In addition, some rumors said that mona lisa has no eyebrows in the painting, why she doesn't have eyebrows, because when they were trying to restore the painting, they made a mistake, so careless removed the eyebrows. However, there are others think that Da Vinci was not able to finished it the painting, because most of Leonardo;s painting were left unfinished. In 1956, the original painting has a minor spot of to damage near her left elbow,a man called Ugo Ungaza threw a stone at the painting, a man named Ugo Ungaza threw a rock at the painting and therefore creating the small damage. Mona lisa artwork started to be general because it was stolen from Louvre Museum in Paris in broad daylight by an employee in 1911. However it was recovered after about two years. Finally, the painting is coming back in Louvre Museum. After that, put inside a bullet proof glass which was built exclusively for the portrait and in a room that’s climate controlled environment.
Monalisa smile
The secret of Mona Lisa's smile is a symbol of quantum
physics than her role is a mystery. Mona Lisa Smile is a simple, low arc
Astronomy Picture of the Leicester Codex of Leonardo da Vinci, described the
Earth revolves around the sun. Her smile is not the whole painting, and this is
just one aspect describes a parallel universe.
Composition
One of the compositional elements that the portrait is known
for is Leonardo’s use of a pyramidal composition which shows the subject with a
wider base at her arms and her hands forming the front corner and everything is
in place to draw the eye up her body to her eyes and her infamous smile.
The Pose
The opposite Mona Lisa little bit relaxed, ease her arm
leans on a chair, her hands crossed in a relaxed fashion. Although she slightly
turned to the side, she sits in open the Viewer and keeps holding the eye. Also
unusual for the time was the fact that Leonardo went against the norm with the
framing of this picture and selects the three quarter length pose rather than a
full length one. In this way he filled the frame with his subject which lends
itself to an intimate image and small room for distraction by her context. The
last one aspect of the posture, the level of the eyes of the Mona Lisa,
Leonardo's position, eye viewing images. This brings the sense of the intimacy
to the picture of our viewers watching her eyes.
The background
The background of the Mona Lisa
seems to ‘fade’ or become more blurred and focus the further from the subject
it extends. This is an unusually time today use many portrait photographers
choose a large aperture so a blurred background, leaving the picture of the
spectators to focus upon the subject.
Although there is a background of absolute point of interest in the
background and the colors in it are somewhat bland, muted, subtle-again leaving
the focus upon Monalisa.
Light
Leonardo the position of the hands and face, using
light to attract the eye of the viewer's image, he wishes to emphasize the good
part like (face and hands) and balanced image, counter to each other. Leonardo
also uses the shadow (or lack of the light) to increase the advanced stage of
development and size of the image. Especially in the area around Monalisa's
neck and the ripples of the clothes in her arms.
Clothing
Even if her dress has quite a bit of detail (the lace work is
quite fine and the detail in the folds on her arms are lovely) and it all is
within keeping of the feel of the image and everything works to emphasize her
face. There’s also a lack of any kind of jewelry or any other kind of accessory
to distract the viewer away from Mona Lisa’s face. Leonardo obviously wants
something about the woman herself to shine through in this image rather than
anything else.
My sketches and process
Beginning i doing research what the famous in Malaysia Cultural. Based on what i start doing to sketch out the Malaysia cultural and draw out some different sketches.
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Second sketches
Third Skecthes
Final choose
My Process
Final work will using A1 size and doing in mixed media
This is the final process what i done.
Began i using pencil to draw out into the background design. And then the Monalisa i using the image to print out and cut it to 4 square and then paste to paper A1 size, i want to make it combine all in one Monalisa look nicest, effect and got something mixed it. Besides that, the background i using Oil pastel because the color more look like nicest than pencil color, and then Oil pastel is good to used it, the color looks more strong, easy to mixed the color more nicest and can attract people.
This is what i complete it the final mixed media works. Monalisa is the most famous in the world, she called Monalisa meaning *My Lady*, that mean what i mixed it Monalisa with Malaysia called My Malaysia Lady. If Monalisa happening in Malaysia, Monalisa will visit whole Malaysia place, fun, feel interesting in Malaysia and want to understanding the Malaysia cultural of the multi-point Malaysia,
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