4/3/2024 0 Comments Beyonce and jay z first video‘Apeshit’ also lingers on the architectural details of the museum itself, from the ceiling of the regal Apollo gallery to the controversial pyramid courtyard designed by I.M. The video takes in millennia-old masterpieces – the Hellenistic marble sculpture The Winged Victory of Samothrace (190 BCE) is a recurring point – as well as a granite sphinx from ancient Egypt (c.2600 BCE) and the iconic Venus de Milo (100 BCE), in front of which Beyoncé sways in a nude bodysuit. And a shot of his Portrait of Madame Récamier (1800) – a depiction of a famous Parisian socialite – with two black women in headwraps seated beneath, is also included. David’s works Oath of the Horatii (1784) and The Intervention of the Sabine Women (1799) are both nodded to. The official court painter to Napoleon features heavily elsewhere in the video. Meanwhile dancers form a line in front of Jacques-Louis David’s The Consecration of the Emperor Napoleon and the Coronation of Empress Joséphine (1805–07) – with the empress’s crown hovering just above Beyoncé’s own head.īeyoncé and Jay-Z, ‘Apeshit’, 2018, film still. ‘Apeshit’ begins with Jay-Z and Beyoncé, dressed in silken, pastel green and pink suits, posing in front of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa (c.1503–06) – the piece returns throughout the video, including a shot behind a woman combing a man’s hair with an afro pick. Taking in the Louvre’s iconic masterpieces over the course of six minutes, through synchronized dance sequences and long camera pans, the film isn’t just a tour of art history’s greatest hits, but makes a deeper political point about the marginalization of bodies of colour in the Western cultural canon.ĭirected by Ricky Saiz (co-head designer of Supreme), the video tracks across the Louvre’s galleries and plaza, constantly drawing attention to the artworks’s (and elite institution’s) celebration of the white, largely male genius – and the choreography of bodies of colour beneath. But the accompanying music video is even more surprising. Beyoncé and Jay-Z shocked fans when they released the album Everything is Love over the weekend, while kicking off their world tour in London. In another heartstopping moment for pop culture, pop music’s power couple Beyoncé and Jay-Z (the Carters) have released a music video for their latest album’s lead single ‘Apeshit’ – filmed in complete secrecy last month at Paris’s Louvre Museum.
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