How to Look at Pictures
Journal Title: Online Journal of Art and Design - Year 2014, Vol 2, Issue 1
Abstract
People looking at Mona Lisa believe that she looks at them from every direction they look at her. However in a numerical survey I have conducted, that has never been done before, 500 people were asked to look at her from right, front and left sides. The results were surprising and negate the well-known myth that Mona Lisa looks at the observer from all directions viewed where only 65% confirmed that Mona Lisa was looking to them from all directions. Likewise, 93% confirmed that Mona Lisa was looking at them while viewing at her from right, 72% when viewing at her from the front and 78% when viewing at her from the left. The pictures (1,2,3) below demonstrate what they observed from each direction. Additional pictures (4,5,6) are that of Albert Einstein. A thorough analysis of the subject brought me to extend and formulate a principle that I named “Mona Lisa’s gaze principle” which fits each element in a picture – portrait, wall in a construction, details in a landscape and the like. This principle guides people how to look at pictures.
Authors and Affiliations
Abraham Tamir| Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
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