In his latest exhibition "Gaga Dance", one of the most popular Latvian painters of the new generation, Ritums Ivanovs, pays homage to Lady Gaga, analyzing the phenomenon of the singer's most famous video clips (Alejandro, Bad Romance, etc.) in his large scale portraits painted as interpretation of Gaga's videos.
To the question, "Why Lady Gaga exactly?", Ivanovs answers: "I have always been interested in bright visual images and this is exactly what I found from the creative work of Lady Gaga. Using the singer's strong visual image, her concert setups and video clips grasp the essence of contemporary culture, age of technocracy, also strong erotic momentum and even certain drama. On the other hand, Lady Gaga herself is attractive in her mysteriousness and this is how I have depicted her on my painting "Lady with Veil", which for me actually associates more with the portraits of Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675). Images distributed by Lady Gaga serve as emotional barometer of our age, they successfully keep on working expressively when taken off the context of entertainment".
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