'Arrow' the Mona Lisa to Instagram; it's the most popular painting on the social network – Vanguardia MX

The mobile app and social network Instagram (IG) allows its hundreds of millions of users to upload images and videos with multiple photo effects such as filters, frames and special colors, and also share those images on the same platform or other social networks, which makes it a space for the enjoyment and appreciation of art with a global reach.
Many Internet users use social media to show their love for the painting and how much they appreciate it, according to Money.co.uk, a comparison website. pricing and financial products, based in the United Kingdom.
They are becoming more and more popular on social media, even becoming a trend., immersive art exhibitions, that is, virtual spaces where artistic works are exhibited and the viewer feels visually immersed, which are offered from all over the world, according to this online platform (www.money.co.uk).
These events are dedicated to famous artists, including Vincent Van Gogh, Gustav Klimt and Frida Kahlo, point out.
His team of experts has prepared a report on the works of great masters of the paintings of recent centuries, considered the most famous in the world, which have been most “instagrammed” (most published and shared on Instagram).
To make the list of favorite paintings on IG, British experts based their work on the quantity of “hashtags” that each painting has accumulated on that social network, which is considered cas an indicator of its popularity among users of that network.
MONA LISA, QUEEN OF INSTAGRAM.
The analysis of the “hashtags”, words, phrases or groups of characters used to group multiple messages on the same theme and preceded by the hash symbol #, has crowned Mona Lisa, by the Italian artist, engineer and scientist Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519) as the most “instagrammed” painting to date.
Mona Lisa, also called Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo, or “La Gioconda” (in Italian), is an oil painting on a poplar wood panel that Da Vinci painted sometime between 1503 and 1519, while living in Florence.
This work, which hangs in the Louvre Museum in Paris, where it remains an object of pilgrimage and a source of constant research and fascination due to its mysterious smile and unproven identity, it is probably the most famous painting in the world, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica (EB).
It presents the half-length portrait of a woman and has a distant landscape as a backdrop and is the favorite “in the world of Instagram”, where it currently has more than 2,023,394 “hashtags,” according to the money.co.uk report.
This amount is more than seven times higher than the amount accumulated by the second work on the list of most-loved paintings. Popular Instagram photos, “The Kiss” by Austrian painter Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), who has 287,282 hashtags on this social network.
This oil painting with gold and tin flakes on canvas, which Klimt painted between 1907 and 1908, It is exhibited at the Belvedere Museum (Vienna, Austria) and is one of the artist's most successful works.
In this painting the painter treats the human figure without shadows and highlights the exuberant sensuality of the skin surrounding it with flat, highly ornamental and brilliantly composed decorative areas, according to the EB.
Third place on the list of most Instagrammed paintings It corresponds to the mural "Guernica" by the Spanish painter Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) with 185,255 hashtags on Instagram.
This painting, an oil on canvas measuring 349.3 by 776.6 centimeters, was painted by Picasso in 1937, in Paris (France) and is on display at the Museo Nacional Reina Sofía (MNRS), in Madrid (Spain). It represents the scene of the bombings carried out by German aviation over the Basque village that gives its name to the work, known to the artist through photographs.
Conceived as a gigantic poster, both the sketches and the large canvas, with a chromatic sobriety, and intensity and articulation of the motives that determine the extremely tragic character of the scene, constitute a generic allegation against the barbarity and terror of war, according to the MNRS.

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