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Analysis #2 - Decoding ARTPOP : The Truth Behind Svetlana
Analysis #2 - Decoding ARTPOP : The Truth Behind Svetlana
You may remember Lacee tweeting about "Svetlana". We all saw her as Lacee's "Alter Ego", but we have found that she is MUCH more than that.
When Gaga announced ARTPOP song titles in the past, she has used caps lock. In many of Lacee's tweets about Svetlana, the name "Svetlana" is capitalised. Svetlana means Light, Holy, Pure Shining or Blessed and translates to the names Lucy and Lana in English. After some research, we came across a woman named Svetlana Leontief Alpers, Born in 1936. Svetlana is an American art historian, and also an art critic. She is now one of the most influential American art historians of her generation. Gaga refers to critics, in Applause. A critic named Hilton Kramer, criticised one of Alper's works, as coming to resemble an artist like Andy Warhol. Andy is the main influence for the whole ARTPOP concept. This is the dismal fate of art history, when the study of art is no longer the primary concern. This refers to critics beginning to hammer artists for their work, as Gaga has explained to us through Applause. Professor Alpers is one of the leading representatives of the kind of art history that now dominated the profession.
One of Alpers Memberships and Distinctions, is her "Guggenheim Fellowship" in 1972-73. This may have influenced Gaga to launch her perfume FAME at the Guggenheim Museum last year. Alpers wrote a book, called "Remembrandt". The book refers to what sounds like an artist like Andy Warhol, or Warhol himself. Remembrandt's enterprise, is "The Studio and the Market is a book". As a writer, Svetlana Alpers has a habit of setting out to make a point, or at least of inducing the illusion that a point is out to be established by means of all the learned references that are set before us with such showy display of erudition, and then, without the point ever really being made, of looking back on what she has been saying as if an irrefutable conclusion had been reached. Sounds a lot like Gaga, right?
Chapter IV of the book is entitled Freedom, Art, and Money. Alpers has been standing here on this title from the beginning of her career. Alpers view, reflects on models or definitions of self and art. In the song "ARTPOP", Gaga sings, "I try to sell myself but I am really laughing, because I just love the music not the bling. (Music not the bling)" Gaga has stated that the definition of art is anything. And self? As she sings, "I try to sell myself", she is saying that she just wants to sell herself to the world as an artist, and have freedom. Remembrandt was an entrepreneur of the self. In the last chapter of the book, There is a feeling that one often has, in reading about "new" art historians, and the new literacy scholars, too. No matter what the subject, and no matter how original their treatment of it, there is a political scenario that tends to repeat itself over and over again, endlessly striking the same notes, and leading to the same conclusions. Gaga started out as a new artist. She has now earned her fame, and with her upcoming album ARTPOP, she IS using the art movement "pop art", which was popular in the 1960's and 70's. So basically, Gaga is using an art form of the past, but twisting it around with a fresh new futuristic approach, to make something new out of it. Also, you can read about "Modernism and It's Enemies", in the New Criterion for March 1986. Coincidently, Gaga was born in March 1986, and is clearly heavily influenced by this amazing artist and art critic. Gaga is using modernism, to make something new of pop art... ARTPOP! “The Enemies”, refers to the critics, who put down Gaga and other artists. Chapter IV of the book (coincidence how gaga mentions "IV" in Applause), is what Gaga has been explaining about how everyone thinks what she is doing, is "just for the money". While it is her job and she does make money from it, it is not the main reason why. Gaga has worked for and achieved both personal and artistic freedom.
In Gaga's latest instagram picture, we can see two lists. One Features 5 songs to be completed for ARTPOP, while the other on the right of the image, shows a list of finished songs. As we worked our way down the list, trying to see what each of the songs on the list were, we found something shocking. There were some songs on the list that Gaga has never talked about. At the bottom of the list, we can clearly see a "SV". When we first saw it, we immediately thought of SVETLANA.
As Gaga has a song named "Donatella", named after the Fashion designer Donatella Versace, who is good friends with Gaga. Seeing that Gaga has made a song about someone, wouldn’t it make sense for her to also have a song called "SVETLANA", named after one of the most influential American art historians of her generation, who has clearly heavily influenced Gaga's ARTPOP movement? If SVETLANA is a song, it will most likely be released through the ARTPOP app. Even if 'Svetlana' is not a song title, Svetlana Alper's has greatly influenced Gaga.