# Clever music video that's driving me crazy...
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-music-video-thats-driving-me-crazy/530827
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [March 1, 2010, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-music-video-thats-driving-me-crazy/530827 "2010-03-01T04:40:40Z")
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### Author:  [@brossa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brossa)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2010, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-music-video-thats-driving-me-crazy/530827/1 "2010-03-01T04:40:40Z")
French band Hold Your Horses has a video for their song [70 Million](http://vimeo.com/9752986) in which a number of famous paintings are copied, tableau-style. I’m going apeshit trying to figure out what a couple of these images are - some of them I’ve never seen so I’m not bothered, but others are familiar but I can’t quite place them. Can I get some help?
Here’s what I’ve got so far, spoilered for those who want to play the home game:
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[The Last Supper](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%C3%9Altima_Cena_-_Da_Vinci_5.jpg), Da Vinci
[The Birth of Venus](http://theabysmal.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/botticelli_birth_venus1.jpg), Botticelli
[The Anatomy Lesson](http://www.hessian.org/heavy_metal/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/the_anatomy_lesson.jpg), Rembrandt
[Henry VIII](http://www.marileecody.com/henry8/henry8holbein1.jpg) by Holbein split with [The Girl With the Pearl Earring](http://expasy.org/spotlight/images/sptlt112.jpg) by Vermeer
[Raft of the Medusa](http://mgjr.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/raft_of_the_medusa_-_theodore_gericault.jpg) by Gericault
[Death of Marat](http://www.vidarholen.net/contents/junk/files/Death_of_Marat_by_David.jpg) by David
[Creation of Man](http://kcfac.kilgore.cc.tx.us/artpage/art/MichelCreationWeb.jpg) by Michelangelo
[The Son of Man](http://emplastrocubas.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/renemagritte-the-son-of-man-1964.jpg) by Magritte
Something Mondrian
Frida Kahlo
??Dali or some cubist?? Kinda reminds me of Dali’s [Profile](http://brainden.com/images/dali-illusion.jpg)
Munch’s [Scream](http://www.sai.msu.su/wm/paint/auth/munch/munch.scream.jpg)
[Van Gogh’s self-portrait with bandaged ear](http://www.scituate.k12.ma.us/docent/Vincent%20Van%20Gogh,%20self-portrait.jpg) in front of his [Bedroom at Arles](http://www.rcs.k12.va.us/csjh/06_07_web/justinK/gogh7.jpg)
Marilyn Monroe by Warhol
[Gabrielle d’Estrees and her sister, the duchess of Villars](http://www.myartprints.com/kunst/schule_von_fontainebleau/gabrielle_d_estrees.jpg), von Fontainebleu - God knows how I remembered this one.
Unknown Madonna and Child, probably with saints - my wife thought it might be El Greco because of how grim and gaunt they all look, but I can’t find a match on Google. The big-ass halos are probably the key, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen this one.
Caravaggio’s [Salome With the Head of John the Baptist](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/CaravaggioSalomeLondon.jpg)
The next one is really bugging me - I know that I’ve seen it! The flower in the hair and the string around the neck are very familiar.
[Liberty Leading the People](http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/delacroix/liberte/liberty.jpg) by Delacroix
No clue as to checkerboard monocle dude at the mirror table
Klimt’s [Kiss](http://www.samefacts.com/images/klimt_kiss-758589.jpg)
Kahlo/Van Gogh/Mondrian/ ??Dali /Magritte/Munch/Warhol again
Don’t know this next one either - it reminds me of Picasso’s Guernica, but other than that I’ve got nothin’
No idea about the ladies sitting with the nun and the priest(?)
The flowers at the end look kind of Van Gogh-y but I doubt they’d use him more than once, so it’s probably someone else[/spoiler]
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### Author:  [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2010, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-music-video-thats-driving-me-crazy/530827/2 "2010-03-01T04:56:48Z")
So clever! I love it!
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### Author:  [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2010, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-music-video-thats-driving-me-crazy/530827/3 "2010-03-01T05:03:04Z")
Not Guernica, [Chagall](http://fredvidal.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/chagall-la-marriee.jpg).
And not ladies/nuns/priests but an \*[infanta](http://educacionplasticayvisual.wikispaces.com/file/view/velazquez.meninas.jpg/30333727/velazquez.meninas.jpg)\*and retinue.
I’d call the last one Van Gogh too.
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### Author:  [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2010, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-music-video-thats-driving-me-crazy/530827/4 "2010-03-01T05:10:46Z")
That video was great!
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### Author:  [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2010, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-music-video-thats-driving-me-crazy/530827/5 "2010-03-01T05:24:21Z")
Last one is Van Gogh’s [Fritillaries in a Copper Vase](http://www.vggallery.com/painting/p_0213.htm), unless I’m mistaken.
Don’t know about the twisted face, though it does look a bit like something Dali would do. The background might be a key, or not part of it.
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### Author:  [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2010, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-music-video-thats-driving-me-crazy/530827/6 "2010-03-01T05:32:52Z")
The profile, I think is based on one of Picasso’s paintings of Dora Maar.
From the clothes she’s wearing, and the background, I’d say [this one](http://www.terraingallery.org/Picasso-Dora-Maar-MS.htm), although most of them have her hand on the other side (as it is in the video) and there’s some differences in the colouration…so perhaps it’s an amalgamation of all the Dora Maar paintings?
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### Author:  [@Baine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baine)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2010, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-music-video-thats-driving-me-crazy/530827/7 "2010-03-01T05:37:16Z")
The reclining nude is [Olympia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympia_(Manet)) by Manet.
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### Author:  [@brossa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brossa)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2010, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-music-video-thats-driving-me-crazy/530827/8 "2010-03-01T05:41:23Z")
> [@Tengu](#):
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> The profile, I think is based on one of Picasso’s paintings of Dora Maar.
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> From the clothes she’s wearing, and the background, I’d say [this one](http://www.terraingallery.org/Picasso-Dora-Maar-MS.htm), although most of them have her hand on the other side (as it is in the video) and there’s some differences in the colouration…so perhaps it’s an amalgamation of all the Dora Maar paintings?
Good eye; like the Van Gogh of the self-portrait in front of the room from another painting.
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### Author:  [@brossa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brossa)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2010, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-music-video-thats-driving-me-crazy/530827/9 "2010-03-01T05:45:20Z")
> [@Baine](#):
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> The reclining nude is [Olympia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympia_(Manet)) by Manet.
Thank God; now I can go to sleep!
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### Author:  [@brossa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brossa)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2010, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-music-video-thats-driving-me-crazy/530827/10 "2010-03-01T23:56:20Z")
Two more ID’d, I think:
[Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia von Harden](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/59/Otto_Dix_Sy_von_Harden.jpg) by Otto Dix, 1926
and
[Madonna Enthroned](http://www.giottodibondone.org/Madonna-Enthroned-%28All-Saints%27-Altarpiece%29-large.html) by Giotto