Many have described the Mona Lisa smile as being enigmatic. And now, emotion recognition software at the University of Amsterdam, has indeed declared that famous smile to be only 83% happy.
The enigmatic-ness must stem from the remaining 17% — the software deemed the subject to be 9% disgusted, 6% fearful and 2% angry. Interesting about Mona being 9% disgusted – that’s not immediately obvious from her face.
Mona Lisa ‘happy’, computer finds – BBC, 15 December 2005
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I never thought she looked happy at all. Definitely a forced smile.
It’s probably having to sit there for so long while some guy in tights is painting her portrait that’s causing the anger.