Les Mysteres Jocondais au Code de Vinci L E P I H
by David G Wilson
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Title
Les Mysteres Jocondais au Code de Vinci L E P I H
Artist
David G Wilson
Medium
Painting - Acrylic On Burlap
Description
This is a revelation of what one could possibly perceive if one were to scrutinize Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa. This revelation is based on the Da Vinci Code and Leonardo's suggestion that the artist who wishes to enhance his faculties for creative invention may stare at a stain on a wall and therein perceive whatever he wishes to see. Fascinated by the story, The Da Vinci Code, albeit fictitious, I reveled in the possibility that Leonardo da Vinci's paintings may be replete with codes, hidden imagery and messages; something that I have always wanted to believe since my discovery of his above mentioned suggestion, but I have never found satisfactory proof to substantiate that belief. Since discovering this statement in 1980, I have however repeatedly scoured the Mona Lisa's image in search of plausible hidden imagery. Finally, the da Vinci Code provided me with some literary justification to prolong my speculation on that possibility and to continue to dabble in my search for a rational solution of the Mona Lisa's mystery. I was, and still am, obsessed with the existence of plausible hidden imagery, which my mind's eye finds when I look for them. However, they frequently prove to be figments of my own imagination and are based on my own idiosyncrasies, grasping for evidence of Leonardo's input. I now feel that, in spite of a lack of solid proof that Leonardo consciously included those possibilities, I have come up with a plausible explanation.
So, in Leonardo's version, I perceive her hair as a row of cypress trees, which are numerous in Italy, Leonardo's birth place. Her eyes are a broken bridge with its reflection in the golden sun kissed waters of the Arno River, Florence, tinted with crepuscular hues of the Tuscan evening. The shadow beneath her nose mimics a Venetian gondola adrift, like Leonardo in his errant search for work, along the Italian landscape. Her lips are a canoe. If one scrutinizes the background landscape one may perceive a fish, Ichthus, about to devour a snake, Satan, which has just crawled across the neck of a dead pope, Gregory V, who condemned Mary Magdalene to a reputation of ill repute. In the upper part of the painting one may perceive another dead pope, St Peter, with his hands clasped, dead. The body of St Peter creates a T shaped cross with the form of the Mona Lisa; could she possibly have been Leonardo's covert Mary Magdalene? That form created by her body and the dead Pope above, St Peter, also create the shape of a scale which may weigh the souls that approach the Pearly Gates.
Her upper body is a director's chair upon which is draped a length of blue silk fabric. Her left arm is congruent with that of the director's chair. The hand of bananas which is usually a deferential reference to my own father - the hand that fed me- is now the delicate hand of the Mona Lisa (Mary Magdalene). Her right arm is a loaf of bread. There is a pear which serves as the back of her hand and the grapes which yield the wine are in a basket. Both bread and grapes are placed in that basket on her lap, suggestive of the conception of Saint Sarah.
There are two animals in Leonardo's version that few people have noticed hidden in plain sight. If one follows the outline of the neck and chest of Leonardo's Mona Lisa one will see the outline of a kitten. Over her left shoulder, one will see the head of a growling dog, created by the meandering river which is traversed by an aqueduct or bridge. I have transformed the dog into a baby's crib and in the crib a dark skinned baby girl stands. Could she possibly be Saint Sarah, the "rumored" offspring of Mary Magdalene and Jesus? Is there any significance to the dog and cat? These two do not usually get along. One traditionally chases the other like the quest for the Holy Grail. The plot of the da Vinci code consists of a chase, seeking what is hidden in the bosom of the Magdalene.
What I have sought to do in this painting is to show that I can replicate the Mona Lisa, creating therein an alternative reality -A Parallel Universe- within the three dimensional illusionary space where she exists. My objective here is to search for an intra-dimensional spatial reality within our three dimensional terrestrial space.
� David G. Wilson
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Comments (6)
Nicole Jean-Louis
Je vous en prie, Monsieur. Cela me fait grand plaisir.
David G Wilson replied:
Merci beaucoup. il y en a trois d'autre comme ça. Regardez-eux. J'essaye de peindre les chose que je peux reconnaitre, cachees dans sa figure, quand je la regarde.
Nicole Jean-Louis
I read your biography and I am impressed! In your biography you stated "The artist... staring at a stain on the wall and therein perceived whatever he wishes to see." I agree. I am always fixated upon Mona Lisa's enigmatic smile and nothing else. Your description and your title make me look Leonardo da Vincy's Mona Lisa differently. This is very interesting. This is a great artwork! (V/f)
Paula Ayers
I had to write that quote down in my inspirational journal, it's a keeper and useful. Beautiful piece of art.
Usha Shantharam
In all the versions of 'Mona Lisa', I can see what you have perceived in her. Now I understand what u mean when u say that an artist can perceive and invent even from a stain on the wall. Mona Lisa is a rich resouce for artists to perceive what they want and create based on it. Leonardo Da Vinci lives for ever. Lovely obsevations and creations. Your comment on my 'tips for buying art' blog has made me know and understand you better. Thank you.