Sunday, July 22, 2007

Mona Lisa, inc.

We were still discussing visual arts, specifically the Mona Lisa painting. Ms. Jewel asked us for our second creative project, to make a reinvention / reinterpretation of Mona Lisa or make a
Mona Lisa-inspired product.
Our group came out with two outputs. First was the reinvention of the Mona Lisa as a goth. Since we really did not know the identity of the Mona Lisa, it might have been possible that Mona Lisa was a prostitute, a thief, a rebel, or anybody. And it is also a modern reinterpretation of the painting, which symbolizes that any masterpiece will continue on persisting all throughout many generations, still maintaining all its mystery and curiosity in it.
Another which we came up with is the "Mona Lotion" with the tag line, for that classic skin that glows. We came up with this because for us, when we look at art in general, we focus more on what makes that certain piece of art unique or distinct from the rest. Of course, when you keep on doing what is already common, the value of what you did tend to share the same value with the rest, in which you got your idea from. In the Mona Lisa painting, Da Vinci painted Mona Lisa in such a way that the skin of the lady in the painting seems like it is glowing. And according to Ms. Jewel, only a fews talented painters can actually do this: putting layers and layers of thin colors, only a few molecules thin. This techniques accounts for the glow.
This can explain that a masterpiece is flexible thanks to the mystery that envelopes it. The mystery allows people to create thoughts or ideas which help unravel the mystery and also improve on other existing concepts, to make it more meaningful.

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