Burn Mona Lisa Speed Painting (Not Original Audio) Atlanta Art

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmfMInkqIbc

A video by Atlanta artist Corey Barksdale protesting the fame and prestige of the Mona Lisa. This video is a response to the Youtube video Testing the Mona Lisa.

http://www.coreybarksdale.com/

Fame

Historian Donald Sassoon cataloged the growth of the painting's fame. During the mid-1800s, Théophile Gautier and the Romantic poets were able to write about Mona Lisa as a femme fatale because Lisa was an ordinary person. Mona Lisa "...was an open text into which one could read what one wanted; probably because she was not a religious image; and, probably, because the literary gazers were mainly men who subjected her to an endless stream of male fantasies." During the 20th century, the painting was stolen, an object for mass reproduction, merchandising, lampooning and speculation, and was reproduced in "300 paintings and 2,000 advertisements".[30] The subject was described as deaf, in mourning,[31] toothless, a "highly-paid tart", various people's lover, a reflection of the artist's neuroses, and a victim of syphilis, infection, paralysis, palsy, cholesterol or a toothache.[30] Scholarly as well as amateur speculation assigned Lisa's name to at least four different paintings[32] and the sitter's identity to at least ten different people.[33]
Crowd in front of Mona Lisa at the Louvre. Visitors generally spend about 15 seconds viewing the Mona Lisa.
Crowd in front of Mona Lisa at the Louvre. Visitors generally spend about 15 seconds viewing the Mona Lisa.[34]

Until the 20th century, Mona Lisa was one among many and certainly not the "most famous painting"[35] in the world as it is termed today. Among works in the Louvre, in 1852 its market value was 90,000 francs compared to works by Raphael valued at up to 600,000 francs. In 1878, the Baedeker guide called it "the most celebrated work of Leonardo in the Louvre". Between 1851 and 1880, artists who visited the Louvre copied Mona Lisa roughly half as many times as certain works by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Antonio da Correggio, Paolo Veronese, Titian, Jean-Baptiste Greuze and Pierre Paul Prud'hon.[30]

Prior to the 1962--1963 tour, the painting was assessed for insurance purposes at $100 million. According to the Guinness Book of Records, this makes the Mona Lisa the most valuable painting ever insured. As an expensive painting, it has only recently been surpassed (in terms of actual dollar price) by three other paintings, the Adele Bloch-Bauer I by Gustav Klimt, which was sold for $135 million (£73 million), the Woman III by Willem de Kooning sold for $137.5 million in November of 2006, and most recently No. 5, 1948 by Jackson Pollock sold for a record $140 million on November 2, 2006. Although these figures are greater than that which the Mona Lisa was insured for, the comparison does not account for the change in prices due to inflation -- $100 million in 1962 is approximately $670 million in 2006 when adjusted for inflation using the US Consumer Price Index.[36]

Speculation about the painting Main article: Speculation about Mona Lisa

Although the sitter has traditionally been identified as Lisa de Giocondo, a lack of definitive evidence has long fueled alternative theories, including the possibility that Leonardo used his own likeness. However, on January 14, 2008, German academics of Heidelberg University made public a finding that corroborates the traditional identification: dated notes scribbled into the margins of a book by its owner on October 1503 established Lisa de Giocondo as the model for the painting.[37]

Other aspects of the painting which have been subject to speculative ideas are the original size of the painting, whether there were other versions of it, and various explanations for how the effect of an enigmatic smile was achieved.

In a National Geographic presentation titled "Testing The Mona Lisa" it was deduced after rigorous assessment, the possibility that the figure depicted in the painting, may be maternal, or pregnant. It was found after extensive infrared reflectography, Lisa herself had a haze around her clothing indictative of a guarnello, the attire worn by pregnant women. Another theory proposed by various health professionals was that Leonardo's represenation of her hands as slightly 'large' was further indicative of Lisa's pregnancy. However, on the obverse, as many scholars or persons suggest, this representation is merely a stylistic concept of beauty encapsulated by numerous Renaissance painters, including Leonardo himself.

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[clow2ground]

You know. You are probably right. : )

[Pilosopya]

It is great! The only thing I don't like is the Signature in the neck!

[NUDrumsCo]

love it

[SpoonYourself]

@khalid305786 Not all art has to be pretty and fabulous. This is just his version of the painting.

[shinaken]

@goldielocks591 but there is a reason that only one Mona Lisa is famous, do you agree?

[goldielocks591]

i love it, i think its all good. the way people paint is their own perspective, i dont think shes ugly at all, thats the way he paints the picture, gzzz if we all painted it the same way it would be pretty boring!

[idreespower]

wow i cant believe

[Jorrellds]

I love it but I hate the huge signature in the moddile. Totally destroyed it for me. But otherwise fucking awesome.

[khalid305786]

Why'd you have to make her ugly?

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Other than that, I really like it, and your painting process was interesting and enjoyable to watch. keep up the good work

[DragonInk101]

what kind of paint do you use (brand)...do you use acrylic or oil?

[boomcc1]

@MountainQueen indian war paint, why do that to lisa we need to remember her

as her origanal painting is.

boomcc1