Who is Mona Lisa smiling for?

Mona Lisa smiles in the Louvre in Paris.

This is an ordinary woman's smile. A normal person only needs to gently raise the normal smile at the corner of his mouth, and it is a simple and popular smile.

However, for hundreds of years, this kind of smile has aroused people's speculations. Some people say "mysterious smile", some people say "charming smile" and some people say "evil smile", so that this clear smile becomes a "mysterious smile". Until today, it seems that no one can accurately crack this "mysterious smile".

In fact, the original intention of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa was to show that during the Renaissance, people broke through the shackles of religion and God and brought their long-lost smiles back to the world. So in his works, he swept away the gloomy and ghostly shadows in previous portraits and drew a free and clear smile. This smile is pure, transparent and clear as water. It should be a smile that anyone can read.

To say mystery, it should not be Mona Lisa's smile, but the mind of the person who understands it.

People who say "enigmatic smile" may have the soul of a politician and educator; Nine times out of ten people who say "charming smile" have the soul of a Taoist; And those who say "evil smile" must have the soul of a Taoist alchemist.

Coincidentally, since Venus was unearthed on the Greek island of Milo 100 years ago, many artists and archaeologists have painstakingly tried to restore its lost arms. Some of them imagine her stroking her hair with her left hand and holding up the falling dress with her right hand; Some imagine her stroking her hair or holding a skirt; Others think that she has something to do with the Trojan War, that is, she walks down with her skirt in her right hand, her head held high in her left hand, and she holds a golden apple or something. But all kinds of attempts failed. All kinds of reduction models added always seem inappropriate and uncoordinated.

In fact, the complete Venus has its own complete beauty, and the brokeback Venus also has its own imperfect beauty. Just as comedy has its beauty, tragedy has its beauty. This is a simple artistic aesthetic law. Later people insisted on reading Venus according to their own imagination, which was not only clumsy in motivation, but also neither fish nor fowl.

Of course, purely from the perspective of literature and aesthetics. Mona Lisa's "mysterious smile" and Venus's broken arm undoubtedly belong to the category of "reception theory" and "image is greater than thinking", so "mystery" and "broken arm" may add infinite charm to the works. If this phenomenon is confined to the field of literature and art, it would be inappropriate and rude. Unfortunately, however, the problem does not stop there.

Throughout history, each of us seems to like to interpret the world subjectively with our own souls. As a result, the simple world becomes complicated and the golden world becomes gloomy.

For this world, optimists see smiles, pessimists see misfortunes; The upright man is full of righteousness, and the despicable man is full of filth; Open-minded people are transparent, while obscure people are full of intrigues; Scientists say the world is too romantic, while artists say the world is too realistic.

In fact, the world often looks very simple, as simple as 1+ 1 = 2. What is not simple is us, it is the soul of each of us. We always don't believe and don't want the world to be so simple. So I try my best to find an answer that is not equal to 2.

So the world became complicated and mysterious.

However, you will never find an answer that is not equal to 2. To this end, we have lost a lot: lost blood, lost life, lost peace, lost tranquility, lost the original nature between the same kind, and lost the sun above each of us.

In fact, the world was originally clear and beautiful; And it can be better.

If we always have a pair of innocent eyes, if our souls are no longer so complicated and mysterious, if each of us can communicate with each other, if we all agree with that simple answer.

Then, if the Mona Lisa can cross just visiting for more than 500 years and come to us alive, we will all agree with her and believe that it is really the eternal smile of mankind.