Comments for "Why is the Mona Lisa the most famous painting of all time?" Video at VideoSift.com

By rottenseed

rottenseed (http://rottenseed.videosift.com) — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 00:53:26 -0800

If there were a "Picture Sift" in the 16th century, this picture would have been in the top 15 in no time.

...oh yea and I'm sick of Freud trying to loop all of mankind into his sick mother-loving fetishes.

By qbert

qbert (http://www.videosift.com/member/qbert) — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 09:23:18 -0800

Very slick!

By gwiz665

gwiz665 (http://www.videosift.com/member/gwiz665) — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 13:35:28 -0800

"Hey Mona Lisa... you half-smiling at me?
let's see you half-smile with my balls in your mouth"
*jumps the painting*

Lance Armstrong, super-president of France.

By yaroslavvb

yaroslavvb (http://www.videosift.com/member/yaroslavvb) — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 20:28:40 -0800

There are many subjective theories of why it's so famous -- because of the mysterious smile, because of mathematical perfection of the ratios of lengths in the painting, and so on

Personally I like the theory that the main reason Mona Lisa's fame is because Leonardo was especially fond of it, and promoted it heavily, taking it to many exhibitions during his time

By karaidl

karaidl (http://www.videosift.com/member/karaidl) — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 00:02:43 -0800

"Mona Lisa's pose... was revolutionary"

By that logic, Goatse is a supreme work of art.

By pragmatick

pragmatick (http://www.videosift.com/member/pragmatick) — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 02:05:39 -0800

Great, interesting video. Surprised there is no NSFW because of the naked breast in one of the paintings.

By BicycleRepairMan

BicycleRepairMan (http://bicyclerepairman.videosift.com) — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 09:48:26 -0800

By that logic, Goatse is a supreme work of art.

Are you insinuating the contrary? Its the Mona lisa of our time, clearly.

By maatc

maatc (http://maatc.videosift.com) — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:59:50 -0800

nice. that taught me a bit of *history as well!

By siftbot

siftbot (http://www.videosift.com/member/siftbot) — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:59:51 -0800

Adding video to channels (History) - requested by maatc.

By MarineGunrock

MarineGunrock (http://marinegunrock.videosift.com) — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 08:20:30 -0800

Since when is famous art NSWF? If you can't look at a painting of a naked woman or a statue of a naked man without feeling like you should be in private, then there's something wrong. It's art, not porn.

By flyingkitty67

flyingkitty67 (http://www.videosift.com/member/flyingkitty67) — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 09:24:41 -0800

To be honest I've never really understood the whole "it's art, not porn". The only real difference is whether you wack off to it or not. Don't get me wrong I know art takes a lot of effort, and creativity, but art is in the eye of the beholder right?

By rottenseed

rottenseed (http://rottenseed.videosift.com) — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:24:38 -0800

You can whack off to thoughts contrived on your very own without external stimuli. And what some would consider "porn" (or something that instigates sexual thought) is relative to culture, upbringing and lifestyle standards.

By MarineGunrock

MarineGunrock (http://marinegunrock.videosift.com) — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:07:26 -0800

The phrase "It's art, not porn" works for a very simple reason.
Pornography is created with the very specific intent of sexually arousing someone.
Art is not. A photographer may photograph a nude woman because the curves of her body create very dynamic shadows under tightly controlled lighting, as well as show shapes that are unlike any other in nature. He does not press the shutter button thinking "Someone will masturbate to this.
He does it to capture beauty in it's natural form. This makes it art, even if her nipples or vagina is clearly visible. Whether you masturbate to it or not does not determine it's classification.

By spoco2

spoco2 (http://www.videosift.com/member/spoco2) — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:38:22 -0800

Erm, it contradicts itself straight away.

First it says that the pose was relaxed and revolutionary for its time as most were profiles, and shows a collection of contemporary upper body, profile portraits, and then almost straight after it says that the close cropped nature was also revolutionary as most portraits were full length, even though all the ones they just showed were MORE cropped than the Mona Lisa

By quantumushroom

quantumushroom (http://www.videosift.com/member/quantumushroom) — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:40:28 -0800

She's still not hot.

By gwiz665

gwiz665 (http://www.videosift.com/member/gwiz665) — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:14:10 -0700

Haha, was just browsing my "worst voted" comments, because I'm such a narcissist and saw my comment above. I think ant, raven, choggie, arvana, qualm, issykitty and kuga need to watch more Robot Chicken.