How to look at a painting

It's easy to look at painting and say we like them, but as this chapter brings up what we need to do is appreciate and really understand what the painting is displaying and showing. This book is about transformation and knowledge of the Art world. It's fascinating the amount of thought, emotion, and details that go into a work of art. Leonardo Da Vinci, who is one of the most famous and well known artists who also painted the famous "Mona Lisa",  also painted "The last supper". This one is my favorite because of the story the painting depicts. You can tell what it going on based on the disciples faces, expressions, and the gestures that they're using towards one another. As mentioned in the introduction color and lighting is also important when it come to analyzing a painting. In this painting I immediately noticed the color contrast with white and black. You can see that around the edges and right around the middle, black is used and the light is also coming from the middle and bottom of the painting surrounding Jesus. I'm very excited to learn more throughout the book and of the 25,000 year of art history!

-Melissa(: