Having trouble relating Western art history to contemporary culture? Watch this video that the French-American band Hold Your Horses made for its track “70 Million,” produced by L’Ogre. Apparently, the entire video was filmed over two weekends in a parking garage in Paris. See if you can name the painting and the artist.
Answers on next page.
Answers:
- “Last Supper” by da Vinci
- “The Birth of Venus” by Boticelli
- “The Anatomy Lesson” by Rembrandt
- “Girl with a Pearl Earring” by Vermeer
- “Portraits of Henry VIII” by Holbein
- “The Raft of the Medusa” by Gericault
- “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
- “Self-Portrait” by Kahlo
- “Portrait of Dora Maar Seated” by Picasso
- “The Scream” by Munch
- “Self-Portrait, 1899” by Van Gogh
- “Ten Marilyns” by Warhol
Verse:
- “Gabrielle d’Estrees et une de ses soeurs by Unknown
- “Maesta” 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:
- “La Mariee” by Chagall
- “Las Meninas” by Velazquez
- “Sunflowers” by Van Gogh