Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci’s portrait of a young woman the identification of the subject as Lisa del Giocondo, the wife of the Florentine merchant Francesco del Giocondo, is based upon accounts by Giorgio Vasari (1511-74). Leonardo himself makes no mention of the Mona Lisa in his sketches and notice books.
Have you ever gone into a store to buy something you spotted in a window, or online only to discovered that it didn’t fit or it looked bad on you. Then a store employee walks up to you and asks if they can help you. You then relate your disappointment concerning their product and they tell you that a competitor has what you’re looking for. You thank them and as your walking out of the store you see an amazing hat and you buy it.
Chances are you’ll go back to that store because of the employee’s honesty, the connection they made with you and of course that great hat.
At least that’s what my late mother use to say. This must have been in the back of my mind behind the jam and the pickles all these years. It seems to surface more and more now a days especially when I’m creating art.
The art of procrastination or the procrastination of art.
Procrastination refers to the deferment of actions or tasks to a later time. Psychologists often cite such behavior as a mechanism for coping with the anxiety associated with starting and/or completing any task or decision. [1] There are three criteria: for a behavior to be classified as procrastination, it must be counterproductive, needless, and delaying.
I know it sounds boring and tedious.Well! It generally is, but I am giving you the 10-cent tour of 19th/20th Century Art.The point of this article is to provide insight into how art actually arrived here in its present state.
