Mona Lisa Smile tells the story of Katherine Ann Watson, a feminist teacher who studied at UCLA graduate school and left as a first-year teacher from "Oakland State" University (thought to be a fictionalized University of California, Berkeley), leaves her boyfriend behind in Los Angeles, California in 1953, to teach at Wellesley College, a conservative women's private liberal arts college in Massachusetts, United States.
Watson tries to open her students' minds to their freedom to do whatever they want with their lives. She encourages her students to believe in themselves, to study to become career professionals, and to improve their economic futures. She uses her art teachings as a vehicle to put across her opinion to the young women that her students need not conform to stereotypes of women made by society, or the roles made for them by society, as women born to become housewives and mothers. She feels that women could do more things in life than solely adopt the roles of wives and mothers. In one scene of the movie, she shows her students four newspaper ads, and asks them to question what the future will think of the idea that women are born into the roles of wives and mothers.
Watson's ideas and ways of teaching are contrary to methods deemed acceptable by the school's directors, conservative women who believe firmly that Watson should not use her class to express her points of views or befriend students, and should stick only to teaching art. Watson is warned that she could lose her job if she continues to interact with students as she has been doing.
Undaunted, Watson becomes stronger in her speeches about feminism and the future of women. She is a firm believer that the outlook of women in society needed to be changed if women were to achieve better futures, and that she needs to instill a spirit of change among her students.
Watson chooses to leave after the one year, but, as she is leaving the campus for the last time, her students run after her car, to show their affection and to thank her for her lessons.
The
Mona
Lisa
is
a
prestigious
portrait
masterpiece.
It
represents
the
highest
art,
leonardo
Da
Vinci,
successfully
portrayed
a
capitalist
period
is
rising
urban
middle-class
women.
Pictured
sitting
position
is
elegant,
smile
subtle,
background,
deep
landscape
painter
incisively
and
vividly
played
the
strange
smoke
shape
"unbounded
gradient
coloring
style."
The
painter
tried
to
make
the
people
rich
inner
feelings
and
beautiful
appearance,
to
achieve
the
combination
ably
in
canthus
lips
like
face
such
disclosure
of
the
key
parts
of
the
feelings,
and
especially
emphatically
grasp
accurately
and
implicative,
achieve
the
dialectical
relationship
between
the
verve,
thereby
mono
lisa
smile
with
a
mysterious,
though
GuJiYun
thousands
like
smile,
is
a
charming
art
historian
called
"mysterious
smile."
Leonardo
Da
Vinci
in
under
the
influence
of
humanism,
the
expression
of
human
feelings.
In
composition,
leonardo
Da
Vinci's
portrait
during
the
past
half
side
by
using
the
habit
of
chest,
with
positive
bust
composition,
perspective:
rose
slightly,
make
a
composition,
Mona
Lisa
pyramidal
appears
more
dignified
and
steady.
In
addition,
the
Mona
Lisa's
hands,
tender,
precise
and
plump,
showed
her
gentleness,
and
identity
and
class
status,
shows
that
leonardo
Da
Vinci's
exquisite
and
he
shares
the
keen
observation
nature.
Additionally
the
Mona
Lisa's
eyebrows
for
chemical
reaction
and
disappeared,
background
had
blue
sky.
Good