Lady Gaga comes head to head with the Mona Lisa within the Louvre and crops a lipstick smile on her face in a brand new video clip launched Wednesday by the singer and the French museum.
The American diva who stars within the new “Joker” film, channelled her Harley Quinn character to do some little bit of lipstick “vandalism” to Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece to advertise the Louvre’s new exhibition, “Figures of the Fool”, which just like the film, opens subsequent month.
Lady Gaga creeps by way of the Paris museum at night time in a pink wig singing a tune composed specifically for the video, which was launched on her Instagram and TikTok accounts.
She finally ends up nose-to-nose with the Mona Lisa earlier than portray a clownish smile in lipstick on the protecting glass in entrance of it. As she stands again, a black mascara tear drops from the star’s eye.
Asked concerning the knowledge of encouraging such gestures at a time when work are recurrently being attacked in museums by local weather activists, the Louvre insisted the video was “purely fictional”, and was a homage to Leonardo, who was obsessed by the smile.
The museum insisted that a further display had been put up for the video in entrance of the three.8-centimeter-thick bulletproof one which protects the canvas.
The lipstick smile is an echo of a key scene in “The Joker: Folie a Deux”, when Harley Quinn visits the Joker, her legal soulmate, in jail.
The Louvre stated they labored with Warner Bros Pictures, the Hollywood studio who made the film, who shot the video within the museum.
It shouldn’t be the primary time the Louvre has been a playground of the celebrities.
Rapper and producer Will.i.am famously put himself into among the museum’s greatest recognized work for his 2016 animated video for “Mona Lisa Smile”, together with taking the reins of Napoleon’s white charger.
Two years later Beyonce and Jay-Z filmed their clip “Apeshit”, utilizing Gericault’s iconic “The Raft of the Medusa”, the “Mona Lisa” and the coronation of Napoleon to make some pithy factors about black folks’s place, and the dearth of it, in classical artwork historical past.
More lately the Louvre, the world’s most visited museum, created a buzz with its photos of a personal go to given to singer Celine Dion earlier than she sang on the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics in July.
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