Department of Neurology, Vivekananda Institute of Medical Science, Calcutta, India.
Med Hypotheses. 2010 Jul;75(1):69-72. doi: 10.1016/j.mehy.2010.01.032. Epub 2010 Feb 19.
The smile on Mona Lisa's face remains enigmatous and a topic of much discussion in art circle over the centuries. In this essay the author proposes a new principle of art neuroscience or the science of aesthetics namely 'dynamism' which artists often employ to impart an illusion of movement in their art works which are essentially static. This illusion is possibly generated through imaginative thinking which involves frontal cortical activation in the viewer's brain coupled with activation of the motion area (area V5/MT) of the viewer's visual cortex. It is suggested that this principle of dynamism is somewhat different from the previously described concept of kinetic art. The author hypothesizes that the great painter Leonardo da Vinci very intelligently painted the angles of the mouth of Mona Lisa's face to evoke this illusion of movement (smile) to increase the aesthetic value of this great work of art.
蒙娜丽莎脸上的微笑仍然是个谜，也是几个世纪以来艺术界讨论的话题。在本文中，作者提出了一个新的艺术神经科学或美学科学原则，即“动态性”，艺术家经常在他们的艺术作品中使用这种原则来赋予静态作品一种运动的错觉。这种错觉可能是通过想象思维产生的，涉及到观众大脑的额皮质的激活，以及观众视觉皮层的运动区域（V5/MT 区）的激活。有人认为，这个动态性原则与之前描述的动态艺术概念有些不同。作者假设，伟大的画家列奥纳多·达·芬奇非常聪明地画了蒙娜丽莎嘴部的角度，以唤起这种运动的错觉（微笑），从而增加这幅伟大艺术作品的美学价值。
