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Mona Lisa of the Chair by Octavio Ocampo
(1) http://www.visionsfineart.com/ocampo/mona_lisas_chair.html
Octavio Ocampo executed this painting in 1988 and in his observation of Leonardo's "Mona Lisa" he saw the delineation of a kitten in her neck and chest. He also recognized the Leonardo's sketches of grotesque faces in the distant mountains.
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The Mona Lisa
(2) http://www.www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/vinci/joconde/joconde.jpg"
If Leonardo made such a pronouncement to assist artists to enhance the creative faculties, it would stand to reason that he would practice with his own ideas. Hence, in 1980, after having read the statement, Wilson began to scrutinize the image of the Mona Lisa and by 1982, produced his first satisfactory impression of the hidden images within the Mona Lisa, entiled: Anthropomorphic Landscape with Giocondesque Topography. However, that was preceded by several studies and sketches including the grotesque "Mona Lisa of the Fjiord".
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Lady with the ermine.
(3) http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/vinci/ermine.jpg"
A glimps of this portrait will yield very little of its hidden imagery, and so a thorough scrutiny will have to be undertaken to be able to perceive any realistic "mnemonic imagery." Fortunately, Wilson has done that for the viewer and on examining Wilson's "La via degli Gallerani", a completely new dimension is revealed.
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La Via dei Gallerani
(4) http://www.oocities.org/davyvon/gallerani.jpg"
"La via degli Gallerani" emerges from Leonardo's portrait of Cecillia Gallerani revealing, as Wilson saw in his mind's eye, a shopper walking away from her home, carrying a shopping basket towards a car. There are damaged lamppoles and a silhouetted figure who is waking away from the car. The rounded upper arch of the doorway, with its flaking plaster, creates a convenient curve for the crown of Cecillia's head. Cecillia's elegant neck is transformed into that of an earthenware jug around which is wrapped a black pearl necklace. Four spotlessly ripe bananas mimics her graceful fingers, while her curacious cheekbones hug the contours of a colored earthenware vase. There are no flowers for Cecilia since she played second fiddle to Beatrice D'Este for the affection of Lodovico Sforza.
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Ginevra dei Benci
(5) http://"www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/vinci/ginevra.jpg"
This is one of the first portrait that the young Leonardo da Vinci executed in 1478. Leonardo's use of the juniper plant as a background for this portrait of Ginevra is testament that he had a penchant for word games, since the Italian word "Junepro" is a pun on the sitter's name. Hence with his penchant for word games and his suggestion of visual games, attests to the possibility that he may have incorporated visual games in his pictures.
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La Via dei Benci
(6) http://"www.oocities.org/davyvon/benci.jpg"
La via de' Benci reveals similar street scene as "La via degli Gallerani". there are people walking away towards their cars in the brillant twilight while a frightened dog cowers towards a mound of dirt that workmen have neglected.In the forground the viewer confronts a chair whose bad is adorned with folded fabric.
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"St Anne, The Virgin & The Infant Jesus"
(7) "http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/vinci/sketch/st-anne.jpg"
The great psychoanalist, Sigmund Freud wrote a short book dealing with the hidden image of a kestral or a vulture in this painting. It is hidden in the folds of the drapery that wraps the virgin. Its tail strikes the Christ-child in the mouth and Freud explains this as a dream that Leonardo is supposed to have had about a bird that struck him on his mouth while he was an infant in his crib. A carefull scrutiny of this painting does indeed reveal a large bird comfortably resting in the lap of the virgin with a long neck curled around her and its beak appears to stab her in the back.Its huge wing is fully extended while its tail fans at the lips of the child.
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Anthropomorphoscape on the Hudson
(8) http://www.oocities.org/davyvon/Anthropomorphoscape.html"
In Wilson's painting, he has transformed the scene into a riverscape whereon one sees smoke rising into the skies. There is a ruin of a building on the water's edge that mimics the lamb that the child is trying to stradle. Is this ruin the sacrificial lamb destroyed at the bank of the Hudson river? There is a young boy determined to catch a fleeing bird (Homeland Security). Both Virgin (USA)and St Anne(Britain her Colonial Mother) have felt the sting of the vulture's viciousness as it makes itself comfortable in the lap of Mary and St Anne. The child who was enjoying the company of the lamb has become a new victim of the vulture's viciousness. This painting was inspired by the 9/11 disaster.
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Leonardo's self-portrait
(9) http://"www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/vinci/leonardoself portrait.jpg"
This is the only surviving image of Leonardo done by his own hand. As his hair and beard cascade down the sides of his rock-hard face, one begins to think of his drawings designed to study water flowing over rocks.
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Leonardo of the Rock
(10) http://www.oocities.org/davyvon/Leonardo.jpg
Wilson's inspiration for this painting was drawn from the studies executed by Leonardo of water currents and his Madonna of the Rock. Combining the two he emerged with the image of Leonardo.
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Octavio Ocampo's experiments with Leonardo's suggestion
(11) http://http://www.visionsfineart.com/ocampo/aa_index.html
These are some of Ocampo's works that seem to show his experimentation with Leonardo's suggestion.
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Anthropomorphic Landscape with Jocondesque Topography
(12) http://www.oocities.org/davyvon/Giocondalnds.html
Executed in 1982, this is one of Wilson's numerous experimentations with the image of the Mona Lisa seeking meaning to this enigmatic picture. What Wilson thinks he has created is a new image that plays with aerial perspective and spatial depth and attempts to depict a fourth dimension. He has created an alternate reality within the contours of a three dimensional illusion.
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Giocondaphilia
(13) http://www.oocities.org/davyvon/Giocondaphilia
This is another one of Wilson's numerous experimentations with the image of the Mona Lisa seeking meaning to this enigmatic picture. In this he sees a couple through an opened window. In a windy crepuscular scene, the couple holds hands as the basket which the wife is holding is transformed into the lips of Mona Lisa. They are both wearing trench coats. There is another female figure traversing the waterfront and also wearing a trenchcoat. She has shoulder long hair. There is also, slightly visible, the upper part of a boat floating in the water. In the foreground, within the home is an armchair draped with a colorful piece of drapery. A hand of bananas is nonchalantly places on the arm of the chair. The finial on the arm of the chair mimics Mona Lisa's left hand. A baby's crib whose headboard mimics the head of a vicious wolf, adds to the furniture in the room. Some have indicated that she may have been pregnant at the time of her sitting.
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The kitten
(14) http://www.oocities.org/davyvon/kitten.jpg
This is the kitten that one can find outlined when one looks at the neck and chest of the Mona Lisa.
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The Dog's head
(15) http://www.oocities.org/davyvon/doghead.jpg
This is the dog's head that appears in the landscape immediately over the left shoulder of the Mona Lisa
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The gondola
(16) http://www.oocities.org/davyvon/gondola.jpg
This is the gondola that one can find when one looks at the shadow beneath the Mona Lisa's nose.
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La Sanssourie
(17) http://www.oocities.org/davyvon/lasanssourie.jpg
This is another version of the Mona Lisa, based on Dan Brown's da Vinci Code. Here, one sees the Magdalene running out into the cold night. The growling dog displays his teeth menacingly and it has taken control and stands over the baby's crib, so "La Sans sourie" (french for "without a smile") has lost her smile. The kitten, however, is still safely protected in her bosom. The dual nature of her personality is now visible. She is both male and female; The male is in profile and the female in three-quater.
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La Revelazione
(16) http://www.oocities.org/davyvon/Revelazione.jpg
This painting proves that Leonardo was right when he said that one may see whatever one wants to see in an image. He also said that the rivers nourish the earth like the veins nourish the body. Hence the human body is but a microcosm of the earth. This painting follows the ficticious claims of the da Vinci Code and portrays the Mona Lisa as the Magdalene, protecting the kitten in her bosom, while the rabid dog which occupies the baby's crib seeks to destroy it.The river flows through her image like the the Sang Real (Sangral). In her basket one sees the bread and the grapes that will be turned into wine. In the background, is the image of Saint Peter lying across, as if in his grave. The two images form the cross of Christ. To her right is the image of Gregory, The Great, who had pronounced her a prostitute. Across his neck is the serpant which represents Sin, about to be devoured by Ichthus, the Fish. The boat without oars is the mysterious smile that has bewildered viewers for 500 years. The other boats are the real source of her income, fisheries, by means of which she was able to bankroll Christ's ministery.
The entire image of Mona Lisa epitomizes painting. It represents the standard by which painting has been judged since the early sixteenth century. So it has been transformed into the various elements of painting; Landscape Portraiture and Still-life.
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