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zoozee — My Modern Mona Lisa
Published: 2006-07-31 05:11:20 +0000 UTC; Views: 1326; Favourites: 21; Downloads: 199
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As I painted this ... I found it more and more having a Mona Lisa look -- just more modern.That is why I called it this name. I feel she is having the same mysterious look - and is she
now smiling or is she not ... ?
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Aww .... thank you
Yes ..you might be right .... I can see now what you mean
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I prefer your mona lisa!!
Sorry picasso but she's more beautiful than yours lol!
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wow ... so happy you like my Mona Lisa better
It was Leonardo Da Vinci that made her originally .. but thats ok ..
I am honored
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lol
sorry about this ! poor Leonardo Da vinci
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WOW...this is just amazing. Beautiful, beautiful image!!
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WOW! I saw the thumb first and had to come see! Amazing!!!!!!!!! I love everything about this. Her expression is PERFECT!!! 
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Awwww I am truly flattered .... Thank You SO SO much
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You're most welcome!! For some reason, I am not being notified when you post a deviation. I checked my friends list to be sure your name was ticked so I would get a notification. Another one the the bugs, I guess. If I hadn't been on your page yesterday, I would have never known you had posted anything. I hope you don't think I am rude.
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That is really weird ... and that was even before DA implemented its new system?
Have you tried to delete me as a friend ... and then trying to re-add me ?
No .... I have not even thought about it ... so no ... I never thought you were rude !
Now I am just thinking ... if there are others that are not seeing my uploads.
Or if there are some that uploads and I am not seeing their new deviations.
I guess it will take a while before everything settles to normal again.
I was happy to see today .... that the random favorites are working again !!
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I just checked out my manage friends. I was going to delete you and re-add you. I noticed that deviations was not ticked. Scraps was ticked but not deviations. I don't know how that happened, but with the way things are around here now, I am not surprised at anything!!!!!!!!! I should get notified now!!!!
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Aww thats cool ...... yeah many weird things are happening ....
so no wonder a think like that could happen ... maybe I should
go and check my friends ... and see if there are any checkmarks
missing ..... better safe than sorry ....you know ....
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wow this is so gorgeous!
-_-" i was never taught art, YOU ARE SO LUCKY!
and it really shows, you're work {and kind personality!} really shows!
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Thank YOU So Much
Yes - I was taught - but I should maybe have done more back then.
Still - I know what makes me better now - and that is doing art
each and every day - that is what makes you better too.
Aww I am truly honored of being your rolemodel
I will do all I can to live up to that fine titel
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Aww thank You ... sooo much
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you're very welcome hun!
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Awww thank you ...... that is nice to hear
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Beautiful, wistful, and mysterious all at once! You did a fantastic job here, especially on the Mona Lisa expression. X3
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Thank You for all those wonderful words -
I think it is great that you like it.
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Susa, I think this is just incredible! Very mysterious! I love the dreamy ethereal quality in this!
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Lea - Thank You SO much ... I was only hoping that it would be liked -
so great news that you like it
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I much prefer your version over his, and that is the truth!
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WOW 
You like my painting better than Leonardo's ?
I am tryly honored
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Yes I do, your subject-model is more beautiful, and the air of mystery around her is much more pronounced than his is, I think! And those eyes, I love green eyes, always have!
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Ok .... the real Mona Lisa .... is not really looking good seen from the standards we
have now a days .. Guess she was beautiful seen with the eyes of the people back
then. At that time they did not use make-up .... and that makes a difference too.
I love making dramatic paintings ... Leonardo was more descreet with the drama
but maybe making a mystery pic without significant drama is more excellent done.
I do not know.
But I can tell you .... I have been in Paris - Louvre ... and seen Mona Lisa ... and
what a BIG HUGE disappointment.
It is so small .... the frame is more significant and huge than the actual painting.
The frame is red velvet and a big shiny gold frame surrounding the velvet.
And there in the middle of all this glory ... sits a tiny MonaLisa - looking all shabby
compared to the pompous frame.
This was years and years ago .... they might have changed it now ... but I have
spoken with several people that have seen it ... and they were all just as
disappointed as me.
However .. a lot of the other art they have there .. was so fantastic and so
wonderful ... that I went around crying ... just seeing such wonderful art.
I was only 16 when I was there .... so not sure if it would have same
impact on me today.
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Yes, I can understand that, by our standards she probably seems rather archaic. But to think that everything Leonardo used, all of them, had to be created from scratch, tinkered with, experimented with, doing the trial and error thing, and then that these paintings have lasted centuries, that to me, is the real phenomenon! I think Da Vinci was a genius! He had a wonderfully curious mind and I think he was born in the wrong century! I think he would have fit in well in this day and age! But as a painter I am not impressed with his works.
I actually had the privilege of seeing Rembrandt's "The Descent From the Cross" in 1985. I had gone to the World's Fair in New Orleans and one of the exhibits was from the Vatican. It was profoundly moving! There was such an impact, such a feeling that they could step out of the image! It is one of the highlights of my life! It was very dramatic, and I cried too! I was in my 30s then!
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Oh so you are like me .... when seeing something that is so fantastic and so wonderful
you can not help but cry .... that is exactly how I am. It is like seeing a miracle !!
I love Rembrandt as an artist ... he is fantastic !!!
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Yes, I am a very emotional person, very tenderhearted and passionate about many things. I agree, it is like seeing a miracle! I know when I saw that image, and it was gigantic, larger than life, actually, it seemed that they could step out of the image. It was very profound. The exhibit was amazing, even though I am not Catholic. When you went into the room where the image was, you walked in a long corridor that had a slight angle leading up. Vaulted ceilings, A very large room. At the end on the far wall, was this work of Rembrandts, and it was so powerful, so beautiful, so realistic, it had such a strong and deep impact! I'll never forget it!
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I know Lea ...... experiences like that ..... will never go away !
I have had something like that several times ... I have been travelling a lot
in my life ... and seen things in most European countries - that have amazed
me - or given me tears in my eyes because of the greatness. Yes ... those
things stick ... and they always will !
Arent we the lucky ones Lea ..... that we let us impact ... we are open to
what may come - even we must stand in the crowd crying.
I think we are very lucky .... I would not like to be one of the ones
that just look and taking it as if they were on their normal window shopping stroll.
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Yes, I know we are the lucky ones! I used to be teased unmercifully by classmates, my own brothers, even, because I was such a tender-hearted kid. I hated it then, but now, I am happy that I am in touch with what I feel, and that I have a tender heart!
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Oh yes same here !!
I got teased a lot too as a kid in school .... all untill I was 12 and we moved
away so I had to change school. What a change - everything got so much better!!
Today I am thinking ..... I would not be the person I am today ... If I had not
been through all that back then !!
One of the biggest reasons for me being teased and harrassed -- and beaten up -
was because they wanted to tease and beat up all the kids coming from
a fosterhome - you know a home for kids with no Dad nor Mom.
They wanted me to tease and beat them too .... but I refused.
Then they said ... if you refuse ... you will be a target yourself - - and if you
do not do what we say right away ... it will be your turn come next brake.
OK .... I got the message ...but could not make myself do anything bad
to those kids. My Mom lost her parents when she was very little ... and she
had told us about it .. we visited the place she grew up .. and got to know
the kids that were there then - we got to know the nuns that ran the place
etc. So ...my sister and I got many playfriends from there ... so I could not
beat up any child that was in that sad position ... not having parents !!
SO .... yes .... they beat me up - the others - I hated going to school -
it was one big terror for me ...
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Well, Bless your heart! It is amazing how cruel children can be, isn't it? I never understood that, except that I think it is that if we don't fit the mould according to the masses, then something is 'wrong' with us! Well, I will remain the different person that I have always been! I agree with you. Our trials, tribulations, failures, all those things teach us about life, and we do become stronger because of it!
I was so miserable in school that when I reached the age of 17, I dropped out of school. Went back 13 years later, took the GED test cold, and passed it. Even went to college for a while, but I couldn't work full-time, raise my daughter full-time, and go to college full-time. So I dropped out of it! But that is another of those things that is a highlight in my life, getting my diploma!
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Yes .. children are cruel .. for the most part - it is like they are kind of a wolfpak
they want all to be the same - and if you are not exactly like them - then you
are an outcast - and it is ok to beat you up ... intimidate you ... tease you and
harrass you.
I can tell you that at the new school ... there was someone that was trying to
be nice to me .... and I was so used to them being mean ... that I fought
against the kind gesture. I was simply not used to anyone really trying to be
nice.
You have been doing really well Lea !!
And if you want your diploma ...you will get it too
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I DID get my diploma. 13 years after I dropped out of school! You know, I always wondered how those kids like that grew up. What kind of adults did they become?? I was just glad to get out of my home town, and never kept in touch with hardly anyone there. They can do a real number on you!
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WOW ...
So wonderful for you !!
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Thanks Susa, For me it was an amazing feeling, the sense of accomplishment. I had no idea that it would effect me that way.
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Thank You 
I am really happy you like it 
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