Mona Lisa

Mona Lisa
Also known as La Giocondo is a portrait of the wife of Francesco del Giocondo. The painting was painted by Leonardo between 1503 and 1505. It was painted in oil on a poplar panel.

It was sold to Francois I. It was greatly admired and considered the prototype of the Renaissance portrait.

The painting is half length portrait and depicts a woman whose expression is often described as enigmatic. Mona Lisa has slight smile which enters into the gentle, delicate atmosphere pervading the whole painting. This because Leonardo uses the sfuma technique, a gradual dissolving of the forms themselves, continuous interaction between light and shade and an uncertain sense of the time of the day.

Mona Lisa dressed on the Florentine fashion of her day and seated in a visionary, mountainous landscape. Mona Lisa subject has been adapted in turn as an aesthetic, philosophical and advertising symbol, entering eventually into the irreverent parodies of the Dada and Surrealist artists.
Mona Lisa

Mustard Race Riot by Andy Warhol

Mustard Race Riot by Andy Warhol
Mustard Race Riot is a painting about civil rights protests in Alabama, United States, in the 1960s. It was sold $15.1 million in 2004. The painting depicts violence in Birmingham on one large panel, with a blank adjoining panel. Mustard race Riot was inspired by three photographs of police attacks on civil rights demonstrators in May 1963. In this painting Warhol transforms terrifying image of policeman and their dogs confronting civil rights demonstrators.
Mustard Race Riot by Andy Warhol