mona lisa,leonardo da vinci,painting,art history Why is the Mona Lisa the most famous painting of all time?

Why is the Mona Lisa the most famous painting of all time?

posted by eric3579

2 years 2 weeks ago • 6287 views

tags: mona lisa, leonardo da vinci, painting, art history

This video answers the question, why is the Mona Lisa the most famous painting of all time?

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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.

written by rottenseed

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Very slick!

written by qbert | 2 years 2 weeks ago | CH

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"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.

written by gwiz665

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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

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

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

written by karaidl

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

written by pragmatick | 2 years 2 weeks ago | CH

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

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

written by BicycleRepairMan

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

written by maatc

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

written by siftbot

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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.

written by MarineGunrock

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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?

written by flyingkitty67

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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.

written by rottenseed

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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.

written by MarineGunrock

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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

written by spoco2

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She's still not hot.

written by quantumushroom

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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.