Mona Lisa: Judging Beauty in Art Media with Thinkers’ Viewpoints

Abstract

                The article titled, “Mona Lisa: Judging Beauty in Art Media with Thinkers’ Viewpoints” aims at studying how the judgment of the Mona Lisa’s beauty that appears in various media, according to the viewpoint of each thinker through the analysis of the concept of each thinker who are interesting, total 5 persons, including Plato, Kant, Peirce, Benjamin, and Barthes. Nowadays, we see a lot of Mona Lisa appearing. In addition to the painting that was her first appearance which is currently being taken care of by the Louvre Museum. So, it is interesting whether her beauty will be present everywhere and every time when she appears in another position or not. The result showed that, Plato pointed out that the beauty of the Mona Lisa is a beauty simulation of the world of form. Kant pointed out that the beauty of the Mona Lisa manifests herself from the spectators’ pleasure. Peirce pointed out that the beauty of the Mona Lisa as a portrait of a beauty, both person and composition. Benjamin pointed out that the beauty of the Mona Lisa has an aura, and when it was reproduced, a new aura appeared as well. Barthes pointed out that the Mona Lisa is beautiful from various definitions. Regardless of how we judge her beauty by the conceptual framework of any thinker, her beauty will always continue to shine for us with the fact that she still be herself, and Leonardo da Vinci was not the only one who took over her beauty.