“MONA LISA’S ENIGMATIC SMILE”

Every one of us knows Mona Lisa; she’s one of the masterpieces of Leonardo da Vinci. He’s a great painter who painted Mona Lisa having undefinable smile. Her smile became a question because it explains a lot of emotions. Since before, it’s a question who’s Mona Lisa and why did Leonardo da Vinci chose to paint it and named it as Mona Lisa but several sources said that it is from the wealthy man named Francesco del Giocondo’s wife who is Lisa. He called his wife “my lady” who also means “Mona”.

Until now, I am still wondering for who’s the real Mona Lisa. Many stories said that Mona Lisa is a princess but whoever she is, all that I know is that, the Mona Lisa painting became very popular because of its mysterious smile. There were a lot of emotions in Mona Lisa’s smile and six of those were written on a book, those were; happiness, not surprised at all, angry, fearful, disgusted and neutral. Because there were a lot of emotions given, I became more confused on what’s the real meaning of that smile.

As a conclusion, I realized that a good painting was not just based on the color and on how it is drew. It is about on how it is formed and on how capable a painting explains a story in our lives. Like Mona Lisa’s painting, it became popular because of the way it was painted – it was really enigmatic.