The Mysteries of the Mona Lisa. Are you ready?
Mona Lisa is one of the most-discussed works of art ever.
Well, what do we know?
1. Smiling Mona Lisa
2. This is one of the most recognizable portraits in the world
3. The hidden portrait of Leonardo da Vinci (it is still unknown how Leonardo really looked - it is believed that he is hidden in this picture)
4. A trick with the optical illusion of a glance "following" you
5. One of the last three paintings, over which da Vinci worked for many years
Blah blah blah…
But we are not gathered for this. It would not be Steemit, if I told you stories that everyone has already heard. While experimenting with a picture in Photoshop, I discovered something interesting and share it with you, friends.
All right, let's get started
Leonardo liked to paint with a mirror, so I mirrored the picture, deciding to see what would happen.
Then came the thought of cloning Mona Lisa and extending the picture:
Hmm ... what is it, I thought, a spear, a pointer?
Then he noticed that the road looks good and from the bottom up and from top to bottom. It seems that the picture can be turned:
Which I did, and then cloned several times:
Then I applied a layer and turned it 90 °, with a transparency of 45%, and then interesting things began to happen! Mind games begin - in the picture you can see a man in the upper corner of Mona Lisa + man = heart in the corners, a girl with a scythe, a flying bird on the corner.
For those who do not see Mona Lisa with a braided braid:
The third eye of the Mona Lisa. Then I put a layer on the picture separately and turned and made a mirror image, with a transparency of 45%. Then Mona Lisa folded her arms and opened her third eye:
I was interested in the movements of the hands. The picture is so symmetrical that Mona Lisa performs many different actions with her hands. For example, corrects the hairstyle, puts on ... Of course, provided that if all of this is looked under the superimposed layers, the transparency is 45-85%.
It is believed that the eyebrows were lost when the painting was restored. And what if it is a myth, but in fact the picture is conceived? After all, under a certain overlapping of the eyebrows again appear in the picture:
Each part of the face is marked with certain marks, some proportions. And if you connect them, you get an interesting thing. For example, lips and veil:
Then, applying a layer by layer, I got a portrait of a woman:
Besides this pretty woman there is also a bald man:
Everything you saw - I found ... Have you guessed where? No! But first I remind you that Leonardo da Vinci worked with light. Who knows how the camera or video camera works? Do you know how a kaleidoscope works? What links these things? Shine. Unfortunately, patents in the XV-XVI centuries on such things did not issue. The first kaleidoscope was opened in 1817 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaleidoscope, and Leonardo lived 300 years before and yet he used it.
It's time for the Louvre to stock up with kaleidoscopes =)
Here's three videos about how it all was maded and finally - Kaleidoscope Mona Lisa - Motion Graphics
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3. Kaleidoscope Mona Lisa - Motion Graphics
Hope you enjoyed it!
Thx for watching!
To be continued...
Completely awesome post,
The mirror idea was rather genius, I was seeing all kinds of crazy stuff. that is a pretty wild concept and idea. Didn't they do some sort of scan on the painting and find another one behind it, it may have been another painting but I believe it was the Mona Lisa.
It is just awesome the way all the pieces line up geometrically and form such great patterns. I really liked all the linked hands and hands on the braids. That looks like it was a lot of work
A painting is a mystery, a painting is a myth and a legend ... How many more secrets will be solved... how many more myths and stories will be associated with this image of the Mona Lisa. Thanks for the interesting post. I read it with great pleasure. Good luck!
haha! howdy from Texas there blinova! I bet you are the only one in the world who has tried to manipulate the Mona Lisa in so many ways, certainly no one else has made a kaleidoscope of her! lol. great job.
The question comes to mind..do you have other famous paintings that you want to play with?
Leonard Da Vinci was a genius. At the same time this project was rather ingenious as well. How did you ever think of doing the kaleidoscope? That is amazing yet makes perfect sense now that you point it out.
I read a lot of posts on Steemit but this is one I will not soon forget.
Only an imaginative person would even conceive doing this post. It's an interesting take on the mystery surrounding the painting. Leonardo was thinking in a different wavelength and that propelled him to be genius in seeing things no one else could. I believe your demonstration of the painting was just one of the several versions of possibilities the man was able to view the image. Good detective skills here Sir :D
Could it be that you have finally uncovered all of the mysteries of this painting? I can't imagine all that was going on through your head that made you take up this task but you did, and you gave out a good result. You mast be a highly imaginative and creative person.
It looks like something that took you a ton of time to get done... How long did it take??
Leonard Da Vinci was a strange man, in fact the people of Florence where he grew up felt he was an awkward young man, but you know? Everything he did had a purpose for it, just like he always bought birds in order release them. People thought he was crazy but he was studying the technicalities of the flight of bird.
I believe the monalisa was done in the late years of his life and your improvisation of the Monalisa showed that it wasn't just a simple painting, there's so many angles and mysteries to the painting and how the Monalisa supposedly didn't have an eyebrow.
I'm not an art person but I just love the place where you improvised and added those corners and deep after you did, I saw an eybrow just dimly embedded, that was something out of the blue buddy. Amazing content, more than awesome.
I always thought this was one of the creepiest portraits ever and you have succeeded in making it even more creepy! This is some fascinating work and gives so much interesting and strange information. Was Da Vinci bald? Maybe now we know!
Oh yes i was ready :-) a very funny and also interessting post with awesome details about this most discussed and perhaps most seen picture in the world.
Your post .... looks a little bit like a conspiracy theory by the way :-)
In a good way!
But anyway, it looks like you had spent much time into this post , so well deserved ups :-)
You surely have put a lot of thought into this @blinova and I am very, very impressed. Your mind works amazingly to think of all the different angles of the painting and to join them in the way that you have joined them. What inspired you to study Mona Lisa? Thank you so much for sharing the videos. I like how you showed us your steps and I especially love the effects from Part 3. Kaleidoscope Mona Lisa - Motion Graphics. It is so beautifully hypnotizing! 😵