Now Lady Gaga has released the “Joker” music video. The singer and actress walks through the corridors of the Louvre, appears in front of the Nike of Samothrace, and then approaches Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa”. She approaches with lipstick in her hand.
Lady Gaga and Joker in the Louvre
He is about to paint the Joker’s smile on the heroine of the painting… but he does it only on the glass protecting the work. However, a close-up of the camera shows the Mona Lisa with the Joker’s mouth. High culture literally has the smile of pop culture, as Salvador Dali once suggested, and Lady Gaga put it into practice.
The most interesting thing is that the “Joker” music video also announces an exhibition at the Louvre, which will open on October 16 in the newly renovated Napoleon Hall. These are “Figures du Fou” (“Images of a Fool”). Perhaps the most famous museum in the world is fully committed to promoting the film, album and exhibition: it has changed its official image on its X account to Mona Lisa with Joker-style lipstick.
As we read on the Louvre’s website, the exhibition will examine “the ubiquity of fools in Western art and culture (…). The Fool may make us laugh with his abundance of frivolous antics, but he also holds a wealth of hidden aspects of an erotic, scatological, tragic or brutal nature. Capable of the best and the worst, the fool entertains, warns or condemns; it turns social values upside down and may even overthrow the established order.” He is also a victim of hate, which is a particular problem today, mainly on the Internet.
“Stańczyk” goes to the Louvre
The exhibition at the Louvre “examines the disappearance of the figure of the fool with the Enlightenment and the triumph of reason, and its rebirth at the end of the 18th century and throughout the 19th century. The fool then became a figure with which artists identified, wondering: “What if I turned out to be a fool?” – reads the text.
