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Awesome music video, staged as classic paintings

submitted by arvana

1 decade 4 years 8 months 3 weeks ago

List of the original paintings in comments.

8 Comments

very cool.

*quality

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by ctrlaltbleach.

The paintings it is based on, thanks to basilisk on Reddit:

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:

Chorus again, then

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

Ok like you cant look away lol very cool

I really liked the song as well.

A very nice video. *doublepromote

Double-Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Thursday, March 4th, 2010 6:36pm PST - doublepromote requested by NicoleBee.

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