Does Leonardo painted two Mona Lisa?

Тhe Isleworth Mona Lisa

  fotohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isleworth_Mona_Lisa

On Friday in Geneva, the Isleworth Mona Lisa is to be revealed by its owners — a Swiss consortium, who argue that their version is Leonardo’s first stab at the painting (http://www.dailymail.co.uk).

 Anatoly Karpov, the chess grandmaster and member of the Mona Lisa Foundation, will unveil the painting.

Opinion within the art world is split over whether it is a real Leonardo or a later copy.

Among those backing the theory that it is genuine are Alessandro Vezzosi, director of the Museo Ideale Leonardo da Vinci in Vinci, the artist’s birthplace on the edge of Florence.

On Friday, he will present the reasons for his conclusion, alongside Carlo Pedretti, of the University of California. A spokesman for the Mona Lisa Foundation has promised that, on Friday, the foundation will produce ‘historical, comparative and scientific evidence’ that the painting ‘was indeed executed by Leonardo’.

   

The known history of this second Mona goes back to 1914, when it was bought by a critic and artist called Hugh Blaker, from Isleworth, West London — hence the name.

Blaker bought the picture from a grand collection in Somerset, where it had apparently hung on the walls for a century.

In 1962, an American art collector, Henry F. Pulitzer, bought the painting and devoted much of his life to proving it was an original. He even wrote a book backing his claim, Where Is The Mona Lisa?, published by the Pulitzer Press, his own company.

After Pulitzer’s death, he left the picture to his girlfriend and, on her death, the Swiss consortium bought it.

Staff set up the light in front of a painting attributed to Leonardo da Vinci and representing Mona Lisa before a presentation in Geneva. DENIS BALIBOUSE/REUTERS

used video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGt-7eFJbtE

This Friday, the art world will examine it in the flesh for the first time since Pulitzer briefly exhibited it in an American show half-a-century ago.

Many art historians remain doubtful. ‘So much is wrong,’ says the Leonardo expert and emeritus professor of art at Oxford University, Martin Kemp. ‘The dress, the hair and background landscape. This one is also painted on canvas, which Leonardo rarely did.’

The famous Mona Lisa is painted on wood, as are practically all of his paintings .

Portrait of Mona Lisa (1479-1528), also known as La Gioconda 

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/vinci/joconde/

Мона Лиза №2 (Тhe Isleworth Mona Lisa). Принадлежит ли картина кисти Леонардо?

 В  эту пятницу в Женеве публике покажут картину «Мона Лиза из Айзелуорта». Представит картину Анатолий Карпов, гроссмейстер, член Мона Лиза Фондейшн. В мире искусства расходятся во мнении, принадлежит ли это произведение  Леонардо, или является более поздней копией.

Среди тех, кто считает это настоящим Леонардо,  Алессандро Вецосси, директор музея  Леонардо да Винчи в Винчи, на окраине Флоренции.

В пятницу он вместе с Карло Педретти из Университета  Калифорнии представит свои доказательства.  Пресс-секретарь  Мона Лиза Фондейшн пообещал, что в пятницу фонд проведет исторический, сравнительный и научный анализ и покажет, что картина  действительно была выполнена  Леонардо.

 Raphael, Portrait Study.

 foto http://employees.oneonta.edu/farberas/arth/arth213/mona_lisa.htm

Известно, что история этой второй Моны восходит к 1914 году, когда она была куплена  критиком и художником Хью Блекером из Айзелуорта, Западный Лондон - отсюда и название.

Блекер купил картину в Гранд Коллекшн в Сомерсете, где она, по-видимому  висела на стене в течение столетия. В 1962 году американский коллекционер, Генри Ф. Пулитцер, купил картину и посвятил большую часть своей жизни поиску доказательств, что она является оригиналом. Он даже написал книгу "Где же Мона Лиза"?

После смерти Пулитцера, картина принадлежала его подруге, а с ее смертью, стала собственностью швейцарского консорциума.

В эту пятницу, мир искусства будет рассматривать картину практически в первый раз, так как Пулитцер мельком ознакомил с ней лишь американскую публику полвека назад.

Многие историки искусства остаются в сомнениях. "А не многовато-ли копий одной картины", говорит эксперт по творчеству Леонардо и почетный профессоро искусств Оксфордского университета Мартин Кемп. "Платье, волосы и фон пейзажа. Да и картина написана на холсте, который Леонардо использовал очень редко". 

Знаменитая Мона Лиза написана на дереве, как и практически все его картины.

Other artists like remake

Leonardo's masterpiece

Botero. Mona Lisa http://theblackcat79.tumblr.com/post/25923133282/botero-s-mona-lisa

Jean-Michel Basquiat  Mona Lisa 1983 

 http://artistquoteoftheday.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/

http://www.artknowledgenews.com/heckscher_museum_identity_crisis_in_art.html

Semenyuk Evgen. My hippie Mona Lisa. 2012. Acrylic

See more here http://www.saatchionline.com/semenyuk

My graphic arts - Indian ink plus watercolor.

  Drawings made can be said the end of the last century.

Semenyuk Evgeny. Thirst. Indian ink and watercolor on paper. 40x30

 Semenyuk Evgeny. Ice and ash. Indian ink and watercolor on paper. 40x30

Semenyuk Evgeny. Street musician. Indian ink and watercolor on paper. 40x30

Semenyuk Evgeny. Watermelon on a chintz field.  Indian ink on paper. 10x20

Semenyuk Evgeny. Female - harlequin. Indian ink and watercolor on paper. 40x30

 Semenyuk Evgeny. Rendezvous, Part 2. Indian ink and watercolor on paper. 40x30

Semenyuk Evgeny. Geology - romantic. Indian ink on paper. 20x30

These my  ideas then  used 

 in a series of paintings  "AMATEURS OF CHAMPAGNE."

About the exhibition  you can see here

Тушь плюс акварель.

Моя графика, можно сказать конца прошлого века. Из этих эскизов затем родилась выставка «Любители шампанского».

My monotypes and prints (drypoint)

This is my experiment with printmaking.  All artworks (drypoint) were printed very small quantities, no more than five copies of each work.

Drypoint is a printmaking technique of the intaglio family, in which an image is incised into a plate (or "matrix") with a hard-pointed "needle" of sharp metal or diamond point. Traditionally the plate was copper, but now acetate, zinc, or plexiglas are also commonly used.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drypoint)

Это мои эксперименты с печатной графикой.  Все гравюры (сухая игла) были напечатаны очень маленьким тиражом , не боле пяти экземпляров каждой работы.

Semenyuk Evgeny. "Garson." Drypoint. Paper. 40x30

Semenyuk Evgeny. "Sleeping." Drypoint. Paper. 10x30

Semenyuk Evgeny. "Labyrinth of Minotaurus." Drypoint. Paper. 40x30

Semenyuk Evgeny. "Cutting of the fish." Drypoint. Paper. 30x20

Several of my monotypes.

Monotyping is a type of printmaking made by drawing or painting on a smooth, non-absorbent surface. The surface, or matrix, was historically a copper etching plate, but in contemporary work it can vary from zinc or glass to acrylic glass. The image is then transferred onto a sheet of paper by pressing the two together, usually using a printing-press. Monotypes can also be created by inking an entire surface and then, using brushes or rags, removing ink to create a subtractive image, eg creating lights from a field of opaque colour. The inks used may be oil based or water based. With oil based inks, the paper may be dry, in which case the image has more contrast, or the paper may be damp, in which case the image has a 10 percent greater range of tones.

Monotyping produces a unique print, or monotype; most of the ink is removed during the initial pressing. Although subsequent reprintings are sometimes possible, they differ greatly from the first print and are generally considered inferior. These prints from the original plate are called "ghost prints." Prints made by pressing the prints onto another surface, effectively making the print into a plate, is called a "cognate". Stencils, watercolor, solvents, brushes, and other tools are often used to embellish a monotype print. Monotypes can be spontaneously executed and with no previous sketch.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotyping)

 Semenyuk Evgeny. "The Village musician". Monotype. Paper. 60x45

Semenyuk Evgeny. "I sell  my soul to a pawnshop." Monotype. Paper. 60x45

Semenyuk Evgeny. "The whole world-theater". Monotype. Paper. 60x45

My Blue Moon

NASA announced the action in memory of astronaut Neil Armstrong.

I am an artist, and so my Blue Moon is not a photo.
My Blue Moon painted on canvas.

 

Semenyuk Evgeny. My Blue Moon. 2012. Oil on canvas. 60x40

Присоединяюсь к акции НАСА в память об астронавте Ниле Армстронге. 

Я художник, поэтому моя Блю Мун не фотография, а живопись.