Starting out with a loose rendition of The Last Supper (in which Matisse seems to have painted a sky above Leonardo’s iconic fresco), French-American band Hold Your Horses takes viewers on a head trip through art history in their new video for the track “70 Million.” Janson’s this is not; instead we see members of the band playing instruments in reconstructed paintings from the operating table to the boudoir. Watch the video after the jump and then follow along on the world’s most entertaining art history lesson.
“70 Million” by Hold Your Horses, produced by l’Ogre.
Sandro Botticelli, The Birth of Venus (c. 1485-87). Housed in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.
The Creation of Adam, from Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel (1511). The Sistine Chapel ceiling is located in The Vatican in Rome.
Caravaggio, The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist (1608). The canvas is housed in St. John’s Co-Cathedral of Valletta, Malta.
Rembrandt, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp (1632). On permanent view in the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague, the Netherlands.
Diego Velázquez, Las Meninas (1656). On display at the Museo del Prado in Madrid.
Johannes Vermeer, Girl with A Pearl Earring (c. 1665). Also part of the permanent collection in the Mauritshuis in The Hague.
Jacques-Louis David, Death of Marat (1793). Part of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium collection.
Théodore Géricault, The Raft of the Medusa (1818-1819). The giant canvas is at the Louvre in Paris.
Eugène Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People (1830). The artist’s best known work is also housed in the Louvre collection.
Édouard Manet, Olympia (1863). Located in the Musée d’Orsay, Paris.
Vincent Van Gogh, sunflower series (c. 1880s). The version pictured above from 1889 is in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Gustav Klimt, The Kiss (1907-08). In the permanent collection of the Neue Galerie in New York.
Joseph Chagall, La Mariée (1950). This painting is held in a private collection — sorry!
We also noticed some stylized portraits of Piet Mondrian, Frida Kahlo, René Magritte, and Andy Warhol. Anything we missed? Put your sleuthiest observations in the comments.
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The blackface one is wack!
[...] their chord progressions. For their latest single, “70 Million”, French indie-pop act Hold Your Horses! offers up a crafty series of trompe l’oeil images pulled (or is it “sampled”) [...]
There’s also Henry VIII as originally done by Hans Holbein the Younger (talking to the Girl with the Pearl Earring) The Scream by Edvard Munch, Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear by Van Gogh, 100 Marilyns by Warhol, and (My favorite part!) Gabrielle d’estrees et une de ses seurs by and unfortunately unknown artist.
Hope that helps!
–Chase
[...] stay in place better than the Bluth family. Flavorpill’s blog put most of the paintings side-by-side with their recreations, but a few are missing. Fill in the gaps in the comments! [...]
Did you forget “The Scream” one? I needed the art lesson, because I can’t remember if that is the official name of it & I don’t remember the artist either. At least not at the moment…
“The Scream” by Edvard Munch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scream
Super zrobione! Podziwiam.
Piet Mondrian, Rene Magritte, Picasso…
Fridda Kahlo
all of you missed the greatest one: otto dix. helloho?! :) http://www.mutanteggplant.com/vitro-nasu/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/otto_dix_sy_von_harden1.jpg
Jeszcze portret Vincentego van Gogha, “Krzyk” Muncha, oczywiście “Ostatnia wieczerza” da Vinci,
+ jedna z prac Cimabue (te aniołki z aureolami)
There is a portrait of François Ier by Jean Clouet, Louvre (along with Girl with the Pearl by Veermeer), Gabrielle D Estree and her sister, (Ecole de Fontainebleau, Louvre), Madonna Enthroned with Angels by Cimabue (Louvre)…
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mondrian
otto dix – Sylvia von Harden
rene margritte – Le Fils De L’Homme (Son of Man)
van gogh – self portrait
Gabrielle d’Estrées with her sister
you’ve forgot
Full painting list avaliable on
http://bit.ly/rtfm_arte70million
and
http://rtfm.es/2010/03/05/de-viaje-por-la-historia-del-arte-con-hold-your-horses/
La mariee by Marc Chagall, not Joseph
[...] million.” The band recreates 25 famous paintings in the video, and if you head over to Flavorwire, you can see side-by-side comparisons for most of the featured [...]
The Last Supper – Leonardo da Vinci (with a Matisse collage sky)
Birth of Venus – Sandro Botticelli
Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp – Rembrandt van Rijn
Henry VIII – Hans Holbein
Girl with a pearl earring – Johannes Vermeer
Raft of the Medusa – Theodore Gericault
Death of Marat – Jacques Louis David
Creation of Adam – Michelangelo (from the Sistine Chapel ceiling)
The Son of Man – Rene Magritte
Composition with Red Blue Yellow – Piet Mondrian
(based on a photograph portrait of Frida Kahlo)
????
The Scream – Eduard Munch
Self Portrait with Bandaged ear – Vincent van Gogh
Marilyns – Andy Warhol
Gabrielle d’Estrees et sa soeur – school of Fontainbleau
Madonna and Child with Angels – Cimabue
The Beheading of St John the Baptist – Caravaggio
Olympia – Eduard Manet
Liberty Leading the People – Eugene Delacroix
Sylvia van Harden – Otto Dix
The Kiss – Gustav Klimt
La Mariee – Marc Chagall
Las Meninas – Diego de Silva y Velazquez
Sunflowers – Vincent van Gogh
This is in the order they come up in the music video. Would someone PLEASE help me identify the one painting I recognize but can’t seem to place! Thanks! ART HISTORY RULES!
Whoops, ofcourse, its Picasso, although I don’t think it looks that much like the portrait of Dora Maar Seated. O well, awesome music video and I love the SONG!
The websites above are the full list of the painting!~:)
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Love the video =)
I wonder why all the online media I read so far about them, in French or English introducing them as a ‘Franco-American’ band. But they are from Sweden – http://www.holdyourhorses.nu/default.asp?pid=19
oh no – there are two bands named ‘Hold Your Horses’… one Swedish that sounds like American country music…
what is meant by the “70 million” part of the lyrics?
Yeah, the black face stuff is messed up – to French white people it has much less immediately loaded connotations than it does to Americans, which doesn’t excuse it or make it not racist. It is, at least, out of thoughtlessness instead of malice.
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