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- infinitus64, on 10/22/2009, -1/+48FTA "Is she smiling or serious? It turns out she's sending mixed signals" of coarse she is , we already established that it is a woman didn't we.
- confuciussay, on 10/22/2009, -0/+46I think if you stare at any image for too long with high attention to detail, it eventually seems to change shape..
- jeremiahjw, on 10/22/2009, -2/+33The real reason is that they cut holes out where the eyes are and there is someone standing behind the picture, like in Scooby Doo. THAT'S why they seem to move.
- Bobski, on 10/23/2009, -0/+24There are other factors too. This image:
http://www.angry-bob.com/images/cognitiveimage.jpg
Will reverse itself when looked at from a distance or though squinted eyes. - Dr3w, on 10/23/2009, -1/+22A VICTORIAN Secret model, you might say?
- TheRedeemer, on 10/23/2009, -2/+19I think that whoever's been puzzled by Mona Lisa's smile needs to go get a life. I'm just sayin'.
- r0ji, on 10/23/2009, -0/+15OH SH-
- mattmacneil, on 10/23/2009, -1/+14Has anyone noticed that the Mona Lisa has no eyebrows?
Did you go back to check? - TheRedeemer, on 10/23/2009, -1/+13What the *****? First of all, how does this story even merit the Pedo-Bear? Second, there wasn't even a caption to it! Are you new to Digg? I believe this post demands a rebuttal:
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..................................., - JoeParanoid, on 10/22/2009, -1/+10Yes but have you noticed that her eyes follow you around the room?
- mattmacneil, on 10/23/2009, -0/+9as does every picture where the subject is looking at the 'camera'.
- ftc08, on 10/23/2009, -0/+8Kind of like if you take any word and say it repeatedly, it starts to sound weird.
"Wrong" is a good one to start with. - SpeedSteamBoat, on 10/23/2009, -1/+7http://instantrimshot.com/
Seriously though, the Victorian era was three hundred years after Leonardo da Vinci and the Mona Lisa. - MPKFA, on 10/23/2009, -1/+7The mystery of the Mona Lisa's smile isn't so much whether or not she is truely smiling, but whether Da Vinci himself purposefully made her so enigmatic. New "mystery".. Did Da Vinci know that the human brain would confuse itself in this way?
- Arkz, on 10/23/2009, -0/+6coarse? you not feeling well buddy?
- hasnainhyder1, on 10/22/2009, -4/+10she could have been a Victoria Secret model...if that existed at her time...
- Dr3w, on 10/23/2009, -0/+6It's been theorized that Mona Lisa is pregnant or had just given birth, so it's possible she had already received said dicking.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15029288/ - RealmDown, on 10/22/2009, -1/+6I've always suspected her smile was being caused by who she was sitting on.
- WhoDoneIt, on 10/23/2009, -1/+6Does anyone know if Da Vinci even "completed" this piece? I've read so many countless articles about the mystery of this and that and her smile, could it be possible that he didn't even complete this piece? Maybe he wasn't happy with this one and he didn't finish painting over a complete "smile" or add "eyebrows".
It's not uncommon for painters to paint over early works to complete, or build up their work.
I love art and am open to many, MANY styles and artistic pieces, but the Mona Lisa isn't a great piece of art in the artistic sense. - xGeneric, on 10/23/2009, -0/+5For me she seems to be smiling most of the time. I can understand the mixed signals to the brain making us sometimes perceive her with a serious look, but it seems to be only for a fleeting moment. Her overall looks seems playful most of the time.
Maybe it's just me though, and I did fall of my bike a few times as a kid ; / - Snap65, on 10/23/2009, -0/+5What the flying monkeys? I have never noticed that before.
- lateralus13, on 10/23/2009, -0/+5it just has to do with focus, if the subjects eyes are focused on the camera or the person who is painting the picture, then they will appear to be focused on you as well when you look at the picture.
- Yomoska, on 10/23/2009, -0/+5Mona Lisa is super saiyan 3
- therightclique, on 10/23/2009, -0/+5At least Da Vinci was an artist. Guys like Jackson Pollack get tons of credit for doing something anyone ever could do.
- CoreyFC, on 10/23/2009, -0/+5Thanks, I would have been up all night wondering how they did that. Now I can sleep.
- TheShero, on 10/23/2009, -0/+4Leonardo you Bastard!
- Amadeus2490, on 10/23/2009, -2/+6Moaning Lisa
- therightclique, on 10/23/2009, -0/+4I have never even heard of this before. I see her the same way every time I look the picture. Is this like a big cultural thing that I completely bypassed somehow? I hate when that happens.
I still maintain that this is not something, and is rather a waste of everyone's time and money. - palehorse864, on 10/23/2009, -2/+6It didn't. I just had two angry faces staring at me and it was scary looking!
- starkerspiel, on 10/23/2009, -1/+5It actually wasn't that unusual, given the context of the painting. Back in the 1500s, it was seen as beautiful to have one's own eyebrows shaven off. The subject of the painting was probably just going with the fashion of the time.
- bmiami69, on 10/23/2009, -0/+3wow, life is much better now.
- palehorse864, on 10/23/2009, -0/+3Do you smile to tempt a lover, mona lisa?
Or is this your way to hide a broken heart?
Many dreams have been brought to your doorstep
They just lie there and they die there
Are you warm, are you real, mona lisa?
Or just a cold and lonely lovely work of art? - Phych, on 10/23/2009, -0/+3...and they would've gotten away with it too...
- mrjigglyfly, on 10/23/2009, -0/+3I am so shocked at this article.. it's a well-known fact that the reason for her enigmatic smile is because her eyes are painted as smiling but her lips are not, or vice versa depending on the side of the face according to some. What exactly is the puzzle?
- GeyserShitdick, on 10/23/2009, -3/+6She looks like she could use a dicking.
- OfficerTenpenny, on 10/23/2009, -0/+3I guess the only thing left to do is call up bill and ted
- RobaAssi, on 10/23/2009, -0/+3Never figured out how her smile is "so mysterious" to worry about why.
- Bobski, on 10/23/2009, -1/+4"Annoying" is even better, especially after partaking of certain herbal cigarettes.
- digitronix, on 10/23/2009, -0/+3I don't understand why the Mona Lisa is so famous. She seems rather dull and disfigured; not that great of a portrait in the first place.
- protoopus, on 10/23/2009, -0/+2i was DELIGHTED the first time i drew a portrait that didn't do that.
- IKORKYI, on 10/23/2009, -0/+2you bastard.
- TheAbsintheHare, on 10/23/2009, -0/+2Yep, women of the time often shaved/tweezed their eyebrows, as well as their hairline to extend the forehead, which at the time was believed to give a regal appearance.
- inactive, on 10/23/2009, -1/+3This article is an interesting read, but it's fairly useless as an examination of Mona Lisa. As MPKFA above me suggests, the real question is what Leonardo himself had in mind. Half a smirk and half a smile is what we all see, but the abstract ideas behind the concrete image can't, by definition, be explained by science. Art is it's own thing.
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..............\.............\ - christoast, on 10/23/2009, -0/+2I like how they say it's not a mystery and back up that claim by just explaining exactly why it is a mystery and don't actually solve the ACTUAL MYSTERY.
- mmrosek, on 10/23/2009, -0/+2Dude....that is crazy
- Joshislong, on 10/23/2009, -0/+2http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHYYkZpZGjo#t=33s
- infinitus64, on 10/23/2009, -0/+1nope me mind a bit leaking out of my ears; *course
- Joker99352, on 10/23/2009, -0/+1Good, now I can finally sleep at night.
- MrJonson, on 10/23/2009, -0/+1most overrated painting ever
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