Thursday, January 20, 2011

Name that Painting!

Dear anyone-who's-ever-appreciated-a-painting,

This music video for "70 Million" by Hold Your Horses! is an art montage - with a difference.  Each painting is a recreation, with the singers popped into the mix.

List of paintings is in the comments.

2 comments:

  1. All classics.

    * "The Last Supper" by da Vinci
    * "The Birth of Venus" by Boticelli
    * "The Anatomy Lesson" by Rembrandt
    * On the right, "Girl with a Pearl Earring" by Vermeer; on the left one of the "Portraits of Henry VIII" by Holbein
    * "The Raft of the Medusa" by Géricault
    * "The Death of Marat" by David
    * "The Creation of Adam" by Michelangelo

    Chorus:

    * "The Son of Man" by Magritte
    * "Composition with Large Red Plane" by Mondrian
    * one of Frida Kahlo’s self-portraits
    * "Portrait of Dora Maar, Seated" by Picasso
    * "The Scream" by Munch
    * The 1899 self-portrait by Van Gogh
    * "Ten Marilyns" by Andy Warhol

    Verse:

    * "Gabrielle d’Estrées et une de ses soeurs" by unknown
    * "Maestá" by Cimabue
    * "Salome" by Caravaggio
    *" Olympia" by Manet
    * "Liberty Leading the People" by Delacroix
    * "Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia von Harden" by Dix
    * "The Kiss" by Klimt

    Chorus again, then

    * "La Mariée by Chagall"
    * "Las Meninas" by Velázquez
    * One of the "Sunflowers" by van Gogh, probably the Third Version

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