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Brilliant music video: Band recreates famous paintings

9:28 PM Mon, Mar 15, 2010 | |   Email this entry

70 Million by Hold Your Horses ! from L'Ogre on Vimeo.

The band is Hold Your Horses, from Ile de France, France; at that MySpace link they describe themselves:

At the beginning it was Flo and Charles in London.
After a few gigs there, they moved to Paris and now we're 7. We're slowly building a know how in polyphonic fever inducing pop. "

As they play their tune 70 Million, in the video, the images change to the band inhabiting scenes in paintings by Van Gogh, Picasso. da Vinci...

Thanks to EarSucker for the list of paintings the band inhabits:

* 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 (not The Cow Shed)
* Las Meninas by Velázquez
* One of the Sunflowers by van Gogh, probably the Third Version

Vimeo and You Tube used different still images ("poster frames"). Want to watch it again?

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