I read an article about renaissance art the other day. Something I think is funny about art is how people tend to read into it. It seems to me like people these days give way more credit to famous artists than what is due. Making a work of art is a process that requires some thought, but the amount that it is assumed was put into whatever work of art being discussed is generally, in my opinion, absurd. For instance someone can look at a painting that is just paint splattered in canvas and say it is a representation of the chaos in the world around us, when in actuality someone just through paint on canvas with no control where it landed. In fact I wouldn’t be surprised if some artists paint vague things like that and wait for others to come up with the back story for the so called “creative process” involved, and simply take credit after the fact.  Or the Mona Lisa for example, people are constantly asking the question why it she smiling. My question to those people is why do you smile for a picture? It’s probably because whoever had the camera told you to smile, so you did. So perhaps she’s smiling because Leonardo da Vinci was like “Hey you know what might make a good picture? If you smiled” and as a result the women modeling for the painting smiled. Now many years later people are overthinking her reasons for smiling when for all we know it was something as simple as she was asked to smile.