The name of the exhibition is taken from a painting created in 1981, which precisely characterises Baušķenieks creative work – apparently joking about serious things. The exposition displays Auseklis Baušķenieks as a witty portrait painter and keen psychologist who depicts a person with all his weaknesses and oddities.

Auseklis Baušķenieks (1910–2007) is one of the most popular and peculiar 20th-century Latvian painters. The exhibition at the Latvian National Museum of Art dedicated to the artist's 100th anniversary provides a glimpse into Baušķenieks' 50-year-long creative career from the end of the 1940s until his very last work, which was painted two years before he died in 2005.

Auseklis Baušķenieks was a creator of realistically satirical or paradoxical paintings; his works stand aside the mainstream Latvian art of the 20th century. They don't fit into any category of artistic expression of those times. Although he presented himself as an emerging painter, later Baušķenieks gradually defined his preferences, namely, drawing and satirical stories.

The artist painted different situations from everyday life with ironic and grotesque intonations, which make people laugh and look at various situations from another point of view.

During his life, Baušķenieks saw two personal exhibitions at the Latvian National Museum of Art (in 1992 and 2000). However, this is the first retrospective exposition presenting his most characteristic works from the collection of the Latvian National Museum of Art, the Latvian Artists' Union Museum, and private collections. Baušķenieks’ drawings and porcelain creations will be on display for the first time.