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Can't sleep Mona eat me. When i look at her, she looks like she could jump right out of the picture and eat me!

and this certainly doesn't help

I once had a freind tell me to compare the Mona Liisa to a two year olds scribble the mona lisa would obviously lose.

That friend was me btw.

@oswald: Some "experts have attributed the uneven background as a result of fading, warping and overall age of the painting itself. I don't know if I totally agree with that, but there are some oddities associated with it because of its mistreatment throughout the years.

I was looking over some articles about the Mona Lisa and found an interesting tidbit in Wikopedia about her smile.
It was evaluated by an "emotion recognition" program and here are the results it gave:

-83% happy
-9% disgusted
-6% fearful
-2% angry
-less than 1% neutral
-0% suprised

I heard that before, Strongbow, and it occurred to me that I found it to be BS. A: He may not have painted it perfectly, and 2, A person, when asked to smile, con often only produce a hideous fake-smile.

@Xzeno: True, that was what the computer deduced based on her smile.

The smile, by the by, may not be quite so smiley. Some experts have speculated that due to the age of the painting and the warp of the frame, the smile may actually be slightly exaggerated. In addition, many people who actually look upon the actual painting report that her smile changes based on where you are standing. Many say that looking at the work peripherially makes facial details stand out more.

I believe that it's a painting of a woman. Nothing more, nothing less. People want it to be different things so that there is some mystery that intrigues them, but it's just a painting. Canvas with ink on it, sorry folks.