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The original Mona Lisa was created with oil paints that were loaded onto a brush and smoothed across a canvas surface. The paints’ properties of colour, lustre, and ability to spread made them ideal for 16th century paintings. Today’s artists also use the properties of matter in their work. The brilliance of this updated Mona Lisa comes partly from neon, a gas that has the property of glowing when an electric current is passed through it. Atomic theory helps to explain the composition and behaviour of matter and how we can use its properties in both science and art.
6 MHR • Unit 1 Atoms, Elements, and Compounds