Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (professional name Lady Gaga1986- )
She references numerous art works in her music videos. The following three examples drew inspiration from paintings.
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Botticelli’s Birth of Venus and Warhol’s various Marilyns:
https://www.out.com/entertainment/music/2013/08/20/art-history-guide-lady-gagas-applause-music-video
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Interview with BBC Radio 1 DJ Greg James: “It’s very inspired by, especially in the beginning, Salvador Dalí and Francis Bacon, the surrealist painters.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/gregjames/2011/03/lady_gaga_-_the_interview.html
There are also hints of Caravaggio in the play of light and dark, beauty and the grotesque. The final image is Gaga’s face in her zombie make-up within a pink triangle blowing a big pink bubblegum bubble about to pop. The monstrous face is reminiscent of the work of Bacon, particularly his dark self-portraits such as:
https://artimage.org.uk/5067/francis-bacon/self-portrait–1973
See also
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A seashell headboard echoes the seashell from which Venus rises in The Birth of Venus.
The English band alt-J do a take on Raphael’s epic fresco School of Athens (1510-11) for their video Tessellate (2012), a modern-day school of philosophy as a gangster’s paradise. Much like in the original, each character in this scene describes mental states with their physical actions.
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The music video for Beyonce’s Mine (2013) includes two masked figures as a noticeable quotation of Magritte’s 1928 painting The Lovers:
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Kanye West’s Famous (2016)
inspired by American artist Vincent Desiderio’s Sleep, a 24-foot-long painting of nudes on a bed with tangled sheets. For his version West replaced the anonymous nudes with digitally-rendered bodies of famous celebrities including singer Taylor Swift.
https://www.vevo.com/watch/kanye-west/famous/USUV71601791
The Sea The Sea’s Waiting (2014) hand painted and directed by Zachary Johnson:
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Miley Cyrus We Can’t Stop (2013)
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Inspired by the works of modern and contemporary art of among others Ryan McGinley, Barbara Kruger, Guy Bourdin, and Valeria Lukyanova see
“Apes**t” by The Carters (Beyoncé and Jay-Z video shot in the Louvre)
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See also “A Guide to the Art in Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s New Music Video at the Louvre” by Andrew Russeth:
http://www.artnews.com/2018/06/17/guide-art-beyonce-jay-zs-new-music-video-louvre
Ariana Grande God is a Woman (2018)
References Georgia O’Keefe’s vulva flower paintings and reimagines the shell with God and its creatures in Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam as an all-female space, this time with a reversal of the shell from right to left:
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Nicki Minaj ft. Cassie The Boys (2012)
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The chamber/installation is an homage to Japanese Artist Yayoi Kusama’s Dots Obsession series of very painting-like installations:
http://www.ricegallery.org/yayoi-kusama
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Kusama has also been the subject of two documentaries, one from 1968 by Jud Yalkut called Kusama’s Self-Obliteration which the painter both produced and stars in (see More Films by Painters for further details), the other the biographical documentary Kusama: Infinity from 2018 by Heather Lenz featuring her various Infinity Mirrored Rooms installations:
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Postscript?
So it really does seem that art [history] has taken over the Internet. At the moment, Music videos fall into two categories: 1) those that make use of tableaux vivants or reimagings/restagings of paintings and 2) those that use paintings themselves, sometimes reimaged as well.
More to come?