I'm offended.

@sunishthanangal1121

4 жыл бұрын

Hahahahahahahahahaha This is awesome 🤣🤣

@Anayaah421

4 жыл бұрын

I'm dead 😂😂

@sarahl.5748

4 жыл бұрын

I love you

@alessandro_natali

4 жыл бұрын

Sorry, Leo. The Lady with an Ermine is far better.

@Happy_Teddy24

4 жыл бұрын

But you yourself thought it was just ok

Mona LIsa is the Kim Kardashian of the art world. Famous because she's famous.

@SuperCoalBlox

7 жыл бұрын

Lol

@SuperCoalBlox

7 жыл бұрын

Excuse me what about Kim Kardashian dad? He created Kim

@tenitovazquez8313

7 жыл бұрын

Wrong Ray J made her famous

@Yusuf1187

7 жыл бұрын

I disagree. Yes, the Mona Lisa is MORE famous than it would otherwise be without the publicity of being stolen. People want to bring down everything valued by society, but it's not just pure manufactured interest. Remember, tons of other paintings have received different opinions and glowing praise, but the Mona Lisa's fame stuck because it is a genuinely wonderful painting in its own right. Like I said in my other comment: The Mona Lisa is not the most impressively realistic painting, it's not the most powerful imagery, etc. But the simplicity and mystery in its concept is I think what makes it interesting even regardless of its history. It is only an image of one woman, nothing else, she has that subtle smile, and the strange background that is an eerily 'empty' foggy valley that looks like it could belong in the pages of some medieval legend. Furthermore, the lines are quite soft, with no major contrasting parts so it's very easy on the eyes. And your focus is drawn right to her face due to the use of light and darkness, and how her face looks at the viewer. These things combined give it a certain magical quality. It almost appears dream-like.

@franciscaribeiro7441

7 жыл бұрын

no no, she is more like smells like teen spirit

Fun fact: after the theft of the Mona Lisa, a popular joke in France went, "I'm going o the Louvre. Can I pick up something for you?"

@daiel1360

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, can you get some milk?

@graciepie1059

4 жыл бұрын

Also toothpaste

@daiel1360

4 жыл бұрын

@@laurahamilton9652 What about Milkpaste?

@yourmom8183

4 жыл бұрын

How the f is that a joke

@dripsval6212

4 жыл бұрын

Don't forget the Mona lisa

With the Mona Lisa, it was all about techniques than the picture itself. - The milky effect, soft edges etc. are signature to Da Vinci's style of painting that not many can recreate to this day. - Look at the pose. It's front facing and not stiff, unlike most of the Renaissance portraits at the time. - BACKGROUND. How many Renaissance portraits had such a vivid background? None. Da Vinci experimented with landscapes and perspective in color (the slowly vanishing colors) and that was breathtaking for a portrait commission of the time. ✔️points for creativity. - The painting also had illusions (with eye movements and also the smile which was soft to not show the true expression). Obviously, the stealing might add to the hype but the Mona Lisa was a revolutionary painting for Renaissance times.

@KCCC326

4 жыл бұрын

I scrolled for this🤗

@Alias24288

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Was trying to articulate forgotten information from my European art paper to answer to the Kim Kardashian comment. Top one on this video:(

@hanfarahman7432

4 жыл бұрын

Nana and da Vinci said he never actually finished her so yeah technically Mona Lisa is a work in progress to never be finished

@ofentsemafoko184

4 жыл бұрын

You speak as if these artists were primitive.

@Directioner7MJ

4 жыл бұрын

You can't be serious with the background comment though. There are PLENTY of Renaissance paintings with extremly detailed backgrounds, to the point where my Art Professors at uni would talk about and analyze them twice as much as the actual focus of the painting. There are a lot of italian Renaissance painters that are specificly known for their elaborate backgrounds... (Sorry if the english is off by the way, i'm not a native speaker)

The Mona Lisa is still, nevertheless, a thousand times better than bananas literally hung at art galleries these days.

@mystari4445

4 жыл бұрын

"No no, he's got a point."

@gavinreid5387

4 жыл бұрын

Taped.

@yelansdeodorant2026

4 жыл бұрын

Wait that exist?

@malachi5813

4 жыл бұрын

Amen

@selfshotproductions

4 жыл бұрын

The point of the banana taped to the wall was a social commentary on the commodification of modern art, and how a value can be assigned to just about anything, regardless of quality, skill, or merit. There are parallels to be drawn between the banana and the hype behind the Mona Lisa...

i used to believe as a kid that the reason why Mona Lisa is popular is because she had no eyebrow 👁👄👁

@thatlittlecherry3928

3 жыл бұрын

BAHHAHAHHAGA THAT'S AMAZING

@prarthanasathishkumarshett5835

3 жыл бұрын

same here !!!!!!!

@Rose-ko4op

3 жыл бұрын

I just realised wth😳

@Ritter2749

3 жыл бұрын

Same

@sepehrghazinezami8577

3 жыл бұрын

They have been removed in past harsh restorations. She originally had eyebrows

I saw the painting IRL and was disappointed. Very small, rather boring compared to the rest.

@Xaw13

4 жыл бұрын

I had the same reaction when seeing the Persistence of Memory by Dalí for the first time... Soooo small!

@stefunyie

4 жыл бұрын

*when you see ur mans pp in real life* -

@splooya1033

4 жыл бұрын

Thoran666 that’s what she said

@patrickrivera8004

4 жыл бұрын

Thoran666 Totally agree. When I went to Paris, there was a whole, large room JUST for the Mona Lisa. It was super packed and crowded I had to literally push through the crowd to see her. When I got to the front, all I saw was a painting that would be in any museum in general, basically. Overall, it’s a good painting but it’s a tad overrated.

@erenyeager-jr2ch

4 жыл бұрын

I’ve never seen it. I had wanted to but idk now

I remember, when I was little, I was so scared of the Mona Lisa. Now when I look back at that, I feel so stupid.

@blearbenin

4 жыл бұрын

I was too! I wonder why?!

@miserimuslovestarvus6587

4 жыл бұрын

She is scary, that's why!

@cam0987

4 жыл бұрын

Sameee

@HermeticWorlds

4 жыл бұрын

She's creepy.

@nemueru

4 жыл бұрын

Same

*begin video* "It was stolen" *end video*

@kenm908

7 жыл бұрын

that doesnt explain why people cared it was stolen though.

@grahamrich9956

7 жыл бұрын

+Ken M Why do stupid things go viral? It's the oddity of human nature.

@mitchjohnson4714

7 жыл бұрын

You people are missing a major point of the video, which is that she provides a blank slate onto which professional critics and amateurs alike can write a bunch of flowery prose to make it look like art criticism is some kind of arcane discipline.

@kenm908

7 жыл бұрын

Mitch Johnson how smart do you think you are?

@ThreeLetters3

7 жыл бұрын

Tom I wish videos would start with that, then be the actual video

So, is the Mona Lisa the first art meme?

@patwaspatted4972

7 жыл бұрын

yes very

@HeavyMetalMouse

7 жыл бұрын

If not the first, certainly among the most successful and long-lived.

@aliveagain

7 жыл бұрын

Exactly what I thought. Kinda how the Harambe memes started, --but he isn't coming back for the big reveal.

@HellsJerome87

7 жыл бұрын

Google "giant snails and knights"

@andrewkful

7 жыл бұрын

Memes have been around forever!

It's just another example of how meaning that we take as absolute because it's been the same our entire lives usually has mundane and arbitrary origins, typically not befitting the pedestal we've placed the thoughts on.

@eve36368

6 жыл бұрын

why existentialism is accurate. +Dee Wye also if it's existed for several generations it merely means the meanings bubble hasn't been popped.

@lozero

6 жыл бұрын

Michael Bush well... Da Vinci was considered a one of a kind genius already when he was alive and that one painting followed him all his life... He never considered it finished... It actually is a very special piece of art

@eve36368

6 жыл бұрын

lo zero reminds me of my trans self. So I'm buying the interpretation da vinci was essentially a trans woman drawing a portrait of herself since she couldn't modify her own body

@annerison

4 жыл бұрын

For some reason when I read this comment, I thought of Christianity. But this is true of all religions.

@K4R3N

4 жыл бұрын

Mecca was underwhelming I found out in 2005

That's a cool story but i'd replace the word overrated with overhyped. Media coverage indeed made the painting more famous than it needed to be. But it's a bloody damn great painting. And i know so not because i've read critics' explanations of light and shadow this and composition that but because i have my own eyes. This is undeniably a magnetic image. It simply has the exact recipe for drawing the spectator in and that recipe was masterfully executed. I am absolutely certain that anyone who gives a crap about art, visuals, or simply things that look good will agree that this painting is something else, even among leonardo's fantastic array of works. But it's definitely overhyped with people claiming there are sectet messages in there, often the painting is even said to be connected to the illuminati and whatnot. Basically there have been a ton of conspiracies around mona lisa for centuries which perpetuated the hype more and more. But there's no doubt the painting itself deserves all the praise it has received.

@Hankblue

3 жыл бұрын

I disagree, if a modern artist today painted plain-looking-woman-stares-musefully-at-you it would likely get no special attention.

@melanianderson4471

3 жыл бұрын

i agree, there are so many paintings that are overlooked

@HAL.9000

3 жыл бұрын

@@Hankblue That’s because it’s been done for ages now. The Mona Lisa was a one of a kind revolutionary piece at the time.

@Hankblue

3 жыл бұрын

@@HAL.9000 Yes, but it's not anymore. Which begs the question why it still has such a massive viewership..

@HAL.9000

3 жыл бұрын

@@Hankblue Well a big part (maybe the biggest part) of art is the story and the history behind the piece. Yes modern artists can paint something similar but that wouldn't be interesting since it's been done for ages and the artist brings nothing new to the table.

That blank face at the end was so unsettling for some reason.

@evolvingemmy

5 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of a dark fantasy book I read where the god of the dead punished his inmates by stealing their identity, leaving them to wander eternity with no faces & no voice. Book: Prince of Lies

When I saw it at the Louvre, I thought it was a great painting...but really it was more about the awe of being near the most famous painting in the world.

So the Mona Lisa can be considered overrated but an entirely white canvas isn't? Okay then

@nataliedavis8949

4 жыл бұрын

I think it's more just "Why did THIS painting become so famous when he painted so mant others?" As opposed to "Its not that good"

@danield.6472

4 жыл бұрын

It is though to anyone not pretentious

@alexrivers8163

4 жыл бұрын

I mean shes not that special, and there may actually be two of them. I find van Gogh's work much more interesting.

@yash124

4 жыл бұрын

*I think for White canvas we have to invent new word because overrated is underrated for that*

@jasonlee6227

3 жыл бұрын

But is that white canvas as famous as the Mona Lisa? Is it as iconic an image as the Mona Lisa? Is it on refrigerator magnets, mentioned in commercials, the subject of songs, articles, mentioned in the movies, TV shows etc.

The fact that y’all are discrediting the genius of Da Vinci just bc his painting is famous is so absurd

@hiptydiptateejack8712

4 жыл бұрын

Her cleavage is done wrong. Even Mikey himself couldn't draw an actual woman's figure correctly.

@CharDhue

4 жыл бұрын

Not really i like his many other work but monalisa is kinda normal to me not a masterpiece but good one noetheless

@jackwyatt3854

4 жыл бұрын

Looking at art is whatever it’s just like a picture

@onthewattle

3 жыл бұрын

Jack Wyatt wow. Very profound....

@bossbabyfuyuhiko6657

3 жыл бұрын

He's dead anyways.

I can't stop daydreaming of the Mona Lisa slowly dissolving in a bathtub full of paint thinner.

@Utuberd0

7 жыл бұрын

you monster!

@npthedarkside27

7 жыл бұрын

Not all heroes wear capes

@comedyman112

7 жыл бұрын

Are you Mr Bean?

@AngelValdovinos

7 жыл бұрын

nice try but the thinner wont do anything

@WatchItMelt

7 жыл бұрын

Really??

Did you know that x-ray technology has revealed there are 3 other versions of the Mona Lisa painted underneath.

@eeewww8569

4 жыл бұрын

Never knew that!

@kima_95

4 жыл бұрын

Source?

@madpillow5665

4 жыл бұрын

Da Vinci

@guganesan.ilavarasan

4 жыл бұрын

3 years, 3 months & 3 days.

@CharDhue

4 жыл бұрын

Or just like my dad did He dont like his old painting so he make another one above it

“Yoshikage Kira has entered the chat.”

@akimizuhana881

3 жыл бұрын

i went to the comments searching for this

I understand nothing about art, I'll admit it, but when I went to the Louvre, having zero expectations about liking the Mona Lisa, I was actually extremely captivated by it. I've felt hypnotized and in owe. There were many people around it and the painting is small, but to this days I'm still so happy I've seen it 'cause I had a glimpse of Leonardo Da Vinci genius. Therefore I can't say that it's "overrated"

I love Vox's informative and intriguing videos. Buzzfeed is just garbage

@liamprendergast4598

7 жыл бұрын

How dare you try to compare buzzfeed to vox!

@gabohernandez1217

7 жыл бұрын

Vox is a smarter buzzfeed

@duesalbladesinger7900

7 жыл бұрын

Buzzfeed is nowhere NEAR the level Vox is at. Every video at Vox is practically a documentary smooshed into a couple minutes. Every video at Buzzfeed is little more than memes and propaganda.

@catbatbomb

7 жыл бұрын

@Mrjoelucaj CNN isn't liberal, it's corporate

@treyforest2466

7 жыл бұрын

+MrJoeLucaj Maybe, but there isn't really any political agenda in this video, so does it matter here?

shows you that art is subjective and just a popular game. JUST LIKE KZread CHANNELS.

@dariomasi9

7 жыл бұрын

Why are you everywhere, love ur animations btw

@TheTrippleTKA

7 жыл бұрын

lol you think you can comment something "balanced" to make it seem like it's not you who's replying to himself.

@dariomasi9

7 жыл бұрын

+TheTrippleTKA what u meen?

@TheTrippleTKA

7 жыл бұрын

dariomasi9 "why are you everywhere." "oh and I LOVE your animations btw" -- stop replying to yourself

@PikaPetey

7 жыл бұрын

***** im not Dariomasi9 that is someone who legit enjoys my animations.

Plot twist: Yoshikage Kira was the one who actually stole the Mona Lisa.

@yeonhokang4020

4 жыл бұрын

*chew*

@HollowPurple-if2co

4 жыл бұрын

Over there

@sahilagarwal6601

2 жыл бұрын

nah he never went outside Morioh, let alone France

When I finally visited Louvre, I was shocked to see how small the most famous painting in the world actually was. lol A little after that I went to Hermitage in Leningrad (yes the city was still called that) and was shocked to see how HUGE Henri Matisse's "La Danse" was. I loved the latter experience much more

How life became overrated.

@WitchVulgar

7 жыл бұрын

How the show "Seinfeld" became overrated.

@-AAA-147

7 жыл бұрын

How Kappa became overrated.

@sintonia4339

7 жыл бұрын

AAA How Smash Bros became overrated

@eve36368

6 жыл бұрын

because oppression.

@ResearcherKeagan

5 жыл бұрын

How feminism became overrated.

So basically it's because she went missing

@mitchjohnson4714

7 жыл бұрын

You people are missing a major point of the video, which is that she provides a blank slate onto which professional critics and amateurs alike can write a bunch of flowery prose to make it look like art criticism is some kind of arcane discipline.

@snicks34

7 жыл бұрын

I mean, she was already a masterpiece, it wouldn't have been as big a deal if it wasn't a really good painting. It's just that most people don't really care that much about art, unless there's some sort of real-life drama mixed in.

@Pinkrevenge101

7 жыл бұрын

+Ross Granick Bluntly put. Modern people or the general public don't see the artistic qualities. Except that her eyes follow you, no eyebrows, and creepy smile. That's Da Vinci's painting at work, his technique and ominous feeling he gave it. The time period it was painted the Renaissance=Rebirth of classical Greco-Roman art and the techniques he used to paint it makes it a masterpiece. People know about it widely in this time period because of the drama associated with it not for what it is, a painting by one of the masters in the Renaissance.

@jaqueline5846

7 жыл бұрын

Ahhh...at 5:00, there's your answer. Kind of like some people don't become famous until after they're dead...After this painting was stolen, people started talking about her because they were forced to find what was so meaningful about it, and to highlight it...so she's not "famous for nothing", rather, she's famous for being the epitome of a critic's blank canvas. It's about finding your own meaning. And that's the mystery she brings- that just when you thought she couldn't be talked about more, here we are trying to get in on it and decipher more meaning for ourselves.

@syafiqamirul2193

7 жыл бұрын

Forgotmyusername come to kardashian club

Yes! Please make more of these! I've been looking for this forever. Why stuff became important, the actual historical reasons not the "art reason".

"art thief fan-fiction"

One of the only channel on yt that keep quality>quantity

@amonleopoldgoth6383

7 жыл бұрын

You should watch primitive technology

@jeremynewcombe3422

7 жыл бұрын

+Phil is a sexy beast You should watch Behind The Screenplay

@jeremynewcombe3422

7 жыл бұрын

+Jeremy Newcombe Lessons from the Screenplay*

@amonleopoldgoth6383

7 жыл бұрын

Jeremy Newcombe I don't like him

@pefkosmegalos

7 жыл бұрын

CGP Grey

80%?! whoa!!

@halithegreat3240

7 жыл бұрын

u watch vox??!?!?!?!?!?!?!

@AnimeBallsDeep

7 жыл бұрын

HaliTheGreat yes

@halithegreat3240

7 жыл бұрын

Anime Balls Deep coo bra

@anti-socialsenpai794

6 жыл бұрын

Balls deep what you doing here😂😂😂so your more of a history guy huh.

@lumi5056

6 жыл бұрын

And the other 20% is i have too much time and i like paintings so why not go there

Absence makes the 'Art' grow fonder - in people's imagination of what they're missing out on, and then they get to see it, echo the proclamation of its press writers. Funny how our perception of art is often dependent on 'experts' view on what is beautiful and refine about it.

A little correction: The Sistine Madonna never was displayed in the Louvre, but was and is a part of Dresden's Old Masters Gallery.

@looxluthor802

6 жыл бұрын

Was looking for this.. apparently every painting in the world is actually in the Louvre.

On a high school art trip to Europe when I was sixteen, I had a strong and unexpected reaction to seeing the Mona Lisa. Wondering lost through the Louvre, not speaking or reading French very well, with limited time to see that painting and everything else on my syllabus, after passing "Winged Victory" again for about the fifth time, I finally found my way into the correct gallery. As I scanned through the room, my eyes hit a crowd made up of the backs of people's heads. It appeared as if she was giving the throng her polite attention, like a bored but patient celebrity in a long receiving line. Someone moved out of the way and our eyes locked. I recognized her, but felt a sudden shock as it also seemed as if she recognized me and her beginning of a smile was in reaction to seeing me walk into the room. I remember shaking my head and thinking, "Oh, Lady! I've been looking every where for you." As I shouldered through the crowd to get closer, her eyes seemed to sparkle back with humor as if to say, "I've been waiting right here for you for over a century. Where have you been all this time?" Leonardo's genius is that he caught that instant; the moment when she spots you and lights up at the sight of you. Her attention seems personal and piercing, as if everyone else around her has just lost her attention and she is fighting the impulse to crack into a giant grin at the sight of your face. You can tell that she is done with the crowd and is ready to go off and have lunch or something with you and to have a nice catch up to see how you've been. It's like meeting a celebrity and finding out that they were a great admirer of yours and had been really looking forward to your meeting with anticipation. She gives the impression that seeing you is the highlight of her very long day. Like you've kept her waiting, but she just can't be mad at you, even though she knows she should be. I've never had a similar reaction to any other painting, certainly not to Leonardo's Ginevra de' Benci, the only work of his in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Ginevra is just the opposite. She looks tired, pale, uncomfortable and ill. I can only guess that Leonardo really liked Mona Lisa and found her charming and just didn't like Genevra as much.

@NaritaZaraki

7 жыл бұрын

Wow! Your comment really makes me want to see the painting in real life. You make her sound so magical! :D

@tessat338

7 жыл бұрын

Photos of the painting only convey the image, not the experience. Definitely go if you ever get a chance. I'll have to content myself with Rembrandt's self- portrait in the National Gallery of Art. His eye follow me around the room but he doesn't look pleased to see me.

@Luciusse

7 жыл бұрын

What I love about this painting is that it means to me something so different than the feeling you described, and yet I completely understand what you establish, about her look, about her face, about the crowd she's in front of. I had the chance to see it multiple time in my life since I live in France and going to Paris is not hard at all, and every time I saw her, it was in different and similar ways. She always has that look and smile, which basically means the same thing, and yet I interpreted her in different ways, depending on the conditions. Wether the room was crowded or nearly emtpy, wether I thought the painting would be bigger than what we described to me, or smaller than it was in my memory, wether I went to the Louvre just to see her, passing by, just to say her hello, or simply wandering in the museum and run into her by complete hazard, she looked at me like saying "Hey, I was waiting for you", or "It's been a long time. You grew up.", or "Don't worry about me, I'm not moving, go do much more important things." or "You changed a lot. It suits you well." I would love to see her again, now that my personnality is well defined, and that I realized art is more than an entertainment. Just to interpret her new reaction.

@soumyasrivastava287

7 жыл бұрын

Tessa T I love your imagination. Not everybody has the power to see certain things and interpret them in these ways. well im happy that you do. :')

@spaceboy6178

7 жыл бұрын

Tessa T Love your comment♥

Atleast Mona Lisa is actual art. Overrated are those which they call 'modern art' and herald blank papers as *masterpieces*.

@DavidRodriguez-ux5ye

7 жыл бұрын

TheFourthWinchester the fountain that thing is just bullshit

@mobydicki9060

7 жыл бұрын

The fact that you talk about "actual art" means you don't understand art.

@willow9571

6 жыл бұрын

Well whilst I do agree with you about understanding you also have to consider the complexity involved in the creation of it .

@futurestoryteller

6 жыл бұрын

Personally I'm fine with this kind of experimentation, "What is art, really?" is a valid artistic and philosophical question worth addressing creatively, and in this case, paradoxically... sometimes... making something that doesn't seem creative is the most creative way to ask the question; but I wonder when modern artists decided that "What is art, really?" was the *only* valid question an artist could pose to be taken seriously. It feels like narcissistic navel gazing.

@noordeepkaur7795

5 жыл бұрын

so you mean to you only realism is 'actual art'?

The thing about the Mona Lisa is that it's not even da Vinci's greatest work, it's pretty ok compared to his other works. But the one thing that really makes it stand out to me is the use of sfumato and the softness of the piece.

It's so good because... when i was a little boy i looked at her hands sitting in her lap...

When you enter the hall of mona lisa on a calm day you are greeted by a plain looking wall. On this wall you see a big bulletproof casket with a rather small painting inside. It's a special moment but after all you've seen it a thousand times already online. after a few seconds of taking in the moment, you turn around. then you are greeted by large masterpieces filled with detail and meaning. beautiful pieces of art, yet only covered by a red lint.

@JoycePinto

4 жыл бұрын

yes! i was underwhelmed by mona but blown away by that painting

It's incredible how many people don't realize or notice that the Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.

@MrGollum1996

7 жыл бұрын

i noticed it before you said

@daverigby23

7 жыл бұрын

Neither has Vermeer's Girl with a pearl earring

@hoe1601

6 жыл бұрын

I never noticed

@AikiraBeats

6 жыл бұрын

Brian Johnson ive noticed that

@rickyperales3377

6 жыл бұрын

Brian Johnson she does have eyebrows

*when i looked at that picture.. how do i say this, this may sound crude.. but..* she actually is fine..

Mona Lisa became overrated when Panic! At the Disco made a song about her Jk jk jk

@tictacpee9718

4 жыл бұрын

Now the song is playing in my head oh no

@jimmyjab190

4 жыл бұрын

The Lonely Island you mean

@legrandliseurtri7495

3 жыл бұрын

They did?

Funnily enough, I was just wondering this exact question yesterday. Thanks Vox!

@adityakhanna113

7 жыл бұрын

Well, even if 100K people watch it. it's probable that someone might have just thought of the same thing that day.

@Fitch75

7 жыл бұрын

SAME LOL

@Sean-tn5nv

7 жыл бұрын

I googled it a few years back haha "why is the Mona Lisa so famous?"

@typo691

7 жыл бұрын

It's 'funnily enough'.

@Aviii_

7 жыл бұрын

Guy edited it. So before you tell Typo (Nice name by the way) that "That's what the guy said.", it's edited.

When you visit her in the louvre every chick is trying to take selfies with it.

@joeyad2626

7 жыл бұрын

Karl Fernandez-Cao lol

@seithroil

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah I'm not going to take a straight on picture? It won't be better than any other photo of it. But there will only me one photo of me with the Mona Lisa.

@DaleKamp

6 жыл бұрын

My girlfriend didn't even want to see it, choosing instead to focus on the other beautiful paintings there.

@LisaNarozhnykh

6 жыл бұрын

So true

@SteppingStonevlogs

6 жыл бұрын

Rather than photo the painting itself, when I saw the Mona Lisa I decided to make a video showing all the many people crowding around the painting...all taking selfies!

2:08 HONESTLY HAVING YOUR HOMETOWN REFERENCED IN A RANDOM VIDEO ABOUT MONA LISA BEING A MEME IS THE MOST SURREAL AND TERRIFYING SENTENCE OF ALL TIME

The Mona Lisa was the VERY first painting that had someone smiling.

@Katamar13

5 жыл бұрын

Prove it

@reese9705

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, source?

@jellybeanchris

3 жыл бұрын

Hmmm... im running through my brain for paintings older than that with a smile...u might just be right... lemme do some research

@anatomicallycorrectmuppets8180

3 жыл бұрын

So?

@stuckonaslide

3 жыл бұрын

@@anatomicallycorrectmuppets8180 your name is based

Finally. An explanation that makes sense to me. Mona Lisa is one of least interesting paintings I have ever bothered to see, yet people keep talking about how she smiles, how beautiful she is (huh?) and how brilliant the triangles on the background are. The triangles on the background!

@andyisdead

5 жыл бұрын

Ikr

The Mona Lisa is very well painted, but it isn't visually interesting or "creative" or unique

@adityakhanna113

7 жыл бұрын

Mona Lisa is good because of Leo not because of Mona, Right?

@NighteeeeeY

7 жыл бұрын

sir, you have no savvy about art and the meaning of the mona lisa.

@tysonasaurus6392

7 жыл бұрын

NighteeeeeY I'm just saying it has no visual appeal, has nothing to do with the "artistic meaning" (while you curl your mustache giving me a condescending look through your monocle). What is so great about a painting with an emotionless face, that is practically what my face is the majority of the day or in any of my photos, it isn't special in any way.

@insertphrasehere15

7 жыл бұрын

the Whole point of the painting style Da vinci used was that the soft edges of the eyes and mouth make it difficult to pin down exactly what expression she is giving the viewer. This is why different people, or even the same person at different times see different expressions on her face. This video is correct that the painting is a 'blank slate' but not in the way that the creator of this video means, her expression is the blank slate. It isn't overrated, Da vinci was the first to use this style of painting, and today we use makeup and airbrushing in photoshop to achieve the same effect on real life models. What does that tell you?

@tysonasaurus6392

7 жыл бұрын

insertcleverphrasehere so what if we can't pin down her expression, no offense to Da Vinci because I think he has some amazing work but Mona Lisa is not that great, I'm not saying in terms of quality because it is very well done.

Tbh Mona Lisa is amazing, if you look at it from any angle it always looks like she’s loooking at you. It has so many techniques that were ahead of its time. It’s also widely iconic. It’s not just some realistic eye drawings, it’s something that has a lot of amazing techniques

One of the most interesting things about seeing the Mona Lisa in real life was all the people just... not seeing it. There was a half-hour line for getting close to the mona Lisa, and everyone in line was looking at their phone. When they did actually get close to the painting they took 5 seconds to take a picture with it (backs turned towards the painting) and left without even looking at it. It's a shame, because although it might be overrated, I loved taking the time to actually look at it and seeing all the skills that went into it.

I actually painted the Mona Lisa.

@HeyRussianCommissar

7 жыл бұрын

***** You were dead in 1956 you silly billy.

@PaulyRenzeth

7 жыл бұрын

Stalin got burned.

@Cryzark

7 жыл бұрын

You made this? I made this.

@HeyRussianCommissar

7 жыл бұрын

Victor Alpert A swastika would be black, red and white actually.

@sergimartin7180

7 жыл бұрын

Good Job!

I saw her in person and I was not impressed. Sadly, I found the paintings surrounding the area more interesting.

@AikiraBeats

6 жыл бұрын

Kael M very true

@MarianaAnselmo30

6 жыл бұрын

Kay M and all the people crowded like animals to take selfies with it makes it worse

@BarbaraBrasileiro

5 жыл бұрын

Me too!

@emiliecrtn9464

5 жыл бұрын

I go to the Louvre every holidays (and I'm French so I have a lot of holidays), I sometimes happens to be in the Mona Lisa room... To see the Wedding of Cana.

@emiliecrtn9464

5 жыл бұрын

Why "sadly"? The paintings in the area are soooo gorgeous and poetic

This is so cool! My mom is called Gioconda after this painting and yeah, this is pretty cool ❤️

See, I was right. People only care when you’re gone.

Last time I came this early, I got laughed at.

@KK-fe8tu

7 жыл бұрын

Hahahahahaha

@element1935

7 жыл бұрын

you're not early but on time

@maldoran9150

7 жыл бұрын

I don't understand where "must of" comes from...

@kefkapalazzo1

7 жыл бұрын

because must've sounds like must of

@eggycat

7 жыл бұрын

Precisely.

The Mona Lisa is not the most impressively realistic painting, it's not the most powerful imagery, etc. But the simplicity and mystery in its concept is I think what makes it interesting even regardless of its history. It is only an image of one woman, nothing else, she has that subtle smile, and the strange background that is an eerily 'empty' foggy valley that looks like it could belong in the pages of some medieval legend. Furthermore, the lines are quite soft, with no major contrasting parts so it's very easy on the eyes. And your focus is drawn right to her face due to the use of light and darkness, and how her face looks at the viewer. These things combined give it a certain magical quality. It almost appears dream-like.

@remembertotakeshowerspleas355

7 жыл бұрын

Not really. There were plenty of other paintings like it- a portrait of an unnamed woman against a dull background- at the time, and even more today.

@oceanusprocellarum6853

7 жыл бұрын

Or maybe Davinci was just too lazy to add anything to the background lol JK

@MissionPowerOn

7 жыл бұрын

A

@Ziggerath

7 жыл бұрын

some one who understands the subtleties of the art

@MrDanygonc

7 жыл бұрын

At least someone gets iy

Quite frankly, Mona Lisa is rather ordinary. In the time period that she lived, it was very popular to pluck off eyebrows and pull out your eyelashes.

who painted the mona lisa? DA VINKYYY?!

You could land a helicopter on that baked potato forehead.

@atiithe

7 жыл бұрын

omg

@TheGameNoire

7 жыл бұрын

How is that funny?

@JovianKronos

7 жыл бұрын

It's a line from a satirical song about how the Mona Lisa is literally overrated

@TheGameNoire

7 жыл бұрын

The song probably isnt funny either.

@KyleClippers

7 жыл бұрын

well aren't you a happy chap

People wrote fanfiction of her absence? Woah fanfics are lurking in the society centuries ago

One time when I was a High School freshman, I drew The Mona Lisa with Jar Jar Binks’s face as a project in Art Class and I called it The Mona Meesa and I showed it to my friends and they thought it was hilarious! 😂😂😂😂

When I saw the painting at the Louvre, I had the strangest impression: one moment she was smiling, one moment she wasn't. This happened over and over again. That's when I realized the appeal of the painting and of the "mysterious smile".

"... there's one more ermine." now THAT'S my kind of art critic

a lot of what was said in this video isn't true. its very clear people don't understand art history and the innovation the Mona Lisa had in the time of the renaissance, driving art to what it is today. its mostly history that makes it famous, and the creation of new techniques (atmospheric perspective, three quarter view, her hands, etc.) that Leonardo davinci created. I'd recommend to learn just a tad bit of art history before criticizing such art (not the video but the comment section). that doesn't mean its the best in the world, but without it art wouldn't be the same

@Katamar13

5 жыл бұрын

Prove it

@MorphRed

4 жыл бұрын

@@Katamar13 Read the comment, slower

@roddrom

3 жыл бұрын

basically what you said is exactly what the video explained, people who were into art around that time understood the big deal with the mona lisa, like you, and what you said, but people who never got into art or painting never understood what was all about until it get robbed. That´s why it is overrrated because people who know art and people who don´t know what the mona is all about, a mix of pure art and mysticism.

I remember my Art Professor. I told him the painting is ok. Like any other painting. He did not accept it because of some bullshit.

@Artist_of_Imagination

3 жыл бұрын

What was his argument anyway?

'Mona Lisa' the song by Lonely Island basically describes my feelings towards the painting.

I remember when I went to Paris and visited the louvre and saw the Mona Lisa, and a bunch of people were talking pictures and it was like you saw it and that was it, interestingly now though the louvre doesn't pay insurance on the painting, they just pay millions of dollars on hand on guards which was actually cheaper than the insurance lol

She has no eyebrows.

@josegomez6549

7 жыл бұрын

Voldemort's wife.

@sarah-xc8jh

7 жыл бұрын

that was the style

@KrazyKate859

7 жыл бұрын

She actually had very fair and thin eyebrows but years of the painting itself decaying make it impossible to see them anymore. Look up Mona Lisa original and you can see what it looked like before it was aged by air, light, and other factors. There have been scans done on the painting (very carefully) in order to know exactly what the original colors were and what was missing from our sight.

Mona Lisa is very fascinating and I think that's because of the way it has had all the world's attention despitebeing so simple compared to the rest of his work. It's in a way iconic and because of the story behind it and its fame, it has a certain feel to it, I think it'll forever be remembered as the one painting that everyone knows. And I think that it's very commandable that it has kept everyone's attention for so long because other better paintings weren't able to. .

I've been to the Louvre and seen this painting. I've also seen other DaVinci works. First impression--it's much smaller than you think.

High production quality, engaging presentation and quality content: this channel is quickly becoming one of my favourites! Great work and really interesting video!

Wtf,does no one actually remembers that the Mona Lisa painting was her with a neutral face(😑) and not her smiling? Mandela effect? Hello?

@isham2044

7 жыл бұрын

Ikr

@isham2044

7 жыл бұрын

Im just replying to myself to say I was here FIRST to comment about her 'smile' and to make sure that its time to wake up

@spacecadet2827

7 жыл бұрын

this whole thread is hilarious

@jandroid33

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah, in the painting she used to have a big turban too. And one eye used to google. And a tooth was gone. And she used to have huge man hands. That was the awesome version!

@adityakhanna113

7 жыл бұрын

+jandroid33 You forgot the drooling.

although i read Dan Brown's works and there seems to be more behind just the mystery of her smile, it's really interesting, you should check his works out

I’ve always felt the painting suffered for its lack of ermines.

@niekklaver3030

3 жыл бұрын

Same..

You didn't say anything about how it came to be called Mona Lisa. It's proper title is la giaconda.

@adityakhanna113

7 жыл бұрын

Ohhhh..... that's what the news headline said. Giaconda

@anaraquelana

7 жыл бұрын

Mona lisa because her name was Lisa Gherardini, and Mona=madonna. La Gioconda was because of her husband's name

Time to include a slot in my daily calendar to watching VOX. Super stuff!

Who painted the mona lisa? *da vinky?*

When I visited the Louvre at the age of ten, there were a bunch of paintings better than the Mona Lisa like the one ahead of it. All just stared at the Mona Lisa. Why? I still wonder..

the lonely island wrote a song bout it being overrated

@FreakieFan

6 жыл бұрын

boy638 What's it called?

@Adakechi

5 жыл бұрын

Guido Anselmi It's called Mona Lisa, it's from the movie Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping.

@FreakieFan

5 жыл бұрын

Oh, right, I forgot, haha. I love that movie.

Thank you! I never understood why this painting is so famous, so it is really nice to get it explained :-)

Outside the room where the Mona Lisa hangs is a painting called La belle ferronnière by Di Vinci...this one is my fave. Seriously underrated.

When you see that STAMP in the Louvre for the first time, in the midst of so many other amazing (and GIANT) paintings, surrounded by fans - just because -, you start to wonder. For me, it‘s 15 years, now. ...nice video. :-) Thank you.

Vox makes one of the most edited and best informational videos on KZread, no doubt.

Honestly, it's actually an amazing painting but because it's such a common pop culture icon it's desensitised our appreciation for it that it's now just an icon and not really a painting anymore

“She’s tryna let you know, she’s been cloned”

That Mona Lisa picture serves a very important and noble purpose in the art world, that is, it frees all the space around the much better paintings in the same gallery where it hangs at the Louvre, like the magnificent Veronese, and the amazing Tizianos.

This video was incredibly eye opening thank you for making this

How ignorant. In its original colors, Mona Lisa's skin was so supple, with a transparent-like quality, it left the masters at awe. After humidity damage, a Dutch restorer covered it in laquer, so Mona Lisa's colors yellowed.

@JiveDadson

7 жыл бұрын

It is standard practice to varnish oil paintings. (Varnish, _not_ lacquer.) Traditional varnish (e.g. Damar) yellows. The varnish needs to be removed and re-applied every few decades. The Louvre is scared to do that. People like her with the jaundiced look, so the jaundiced look stays.

@KookiesNolly

6 жыл бұрын

what about her eyebrows? where did they go?

@lapy9567

5 жыл бұрын

+Eli N.S she never had it in the first place

Was not expecting my home town (paducah, KY) to make an appearance

La Gioconda (the Mona Lisa) is famous for the "wrong" reasons these days. In its day, it was a breakthrough in realism. The Italian painters all painted between carefully drawn outlines during the Early Renaissance, but Leonardo was able to introduce the illusions of atmosphere and of three-dimensions by softening all the edges to differing degrees. Most Italians of the late 1400s and early 1500s had never seen an image that looked so very realistic. Leonardo's soft-focus technique is now known as sfumato.

I love the Mona Lisa. People have such strong emotions towards this painting. They either love or hate it. Neither of it has to do with the painting itself but just to the culture and history that surround this great piece of art. All the people that say that it is a bad painting, don't get it. All the ones that say that it is the greatest thing ever, also don't get it. Those who are able to appreciate it... those get it.

I took a humanities class and my professor would talk about how beautiful the painting is... I personally don't see the beauty

@STUPIDHUMAN

5 жыл бұрын

The beauty comes from the genius-level consideration that was put into making the artwork. Just imagine one thing you love about the human face but then imagine that and a hundred other things you love about the human face all put together in a work of art, that's exactly what an artists like Leonardo do.

@billolsen4360

4 жыл бұрын

Same here. Let's face it, Rembrandt did better portraits.

@chadurot1773

4 жыл бұрын

I am an artist and I see a lot of things behind the painting, dont take it letterally. Try to see and understand how and why the artist did this and did that in the painting, every tiny details has different meaning. If you can not appreciate art how can you appreciate life?life is beautiful and so is art, art comes in many forms, we ourselves are a masterpiece created by God.

At 2:41 the video states that the Sistine Madonna by Raphael was in the Louvre, showing an image. But... it's in Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden. Right?

@bea8861

4 жыл бұрын

I believe you are correct! While I do not know where the Sistine Madonna was at the time, the sources that Vox used definitely do not say that it is the Louvre’s most famous painting. I read the newspaper that covered this part of the video and it merely says "In European art circles [the Mona Lisa] is considered to rank second only to the 'Sistine Madonna' by Raphael. Both are priceless". No mention of the Sistine Madonna being stored or displayed in the Louvre!

@andiolaim

4 жыл бұрын

@@bea8861 Thank you. That explains the confusion.

Thanks for the video, I really enjoyed it 🙃

Why is the Mona Lisa (1503-1504) being acknowledged by Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) important? The painting was famous for centuries at that point.

What's this? Mona Lisa only became popular AFTER it was stolen and retrieved? Then I guess the Trumps wouldn't mind if I walked out with their trust fund........

What a video.. The Mona Lisa is a wonderful painting!

I'm going to go and see it in 2 days!so excited

I kind of disagree. The way Leonardo Da Vinci painted, is just magnificent. How he put so much detail in every aspect of the painting, the lighting and especially the shadows! Also the painter himself is a mystery and mostlikely just as important to why the painting got so famous.

@jamesrichards2720

7 жыл бұрын

I agree with your light and dark comment. one reason it became so famous is because it was the first time chiaroscuro was effectively implemented using the new medium of oil to create a more 3 dimensional piece. it started a new type of art using light and dark.

@adityakhanna113

7 жыл бұрын

Leonardo put effort in all of them. But why only this? Okay, everyone knows it's name. I'm not even mildly into art but I do too. Why not any other of his? that's the question.

@reganlam9940

7 жыл бұрын

How many people think really knows that? You can study drawings are all you want but you''ll never be able to explain why mona lisa was so popular with your bs justification.

@LodrikBadric

7 жыл бұрын

Yes, plus Leonardo never actually sold the picture.

@giggogalac604

6 жыл бұрын

There are far better Italian painters than Leonardo himself, before and after his time

This is like that one contraband CS:GO skin

From what song are the 2 stabs at the begining of the video?! Thanks

Do you have any research to support this story? I'm writing my dissertation on how the painting became famous and could really use some supporting evidence.