![]() Among the most striking images, she’s planted two dancers in front of the Mona Lisa for a hair-combing session, complete with an afro pick with a clenched fist on the handle.Īmong the most striking images, she’s planted two dancers in front of the Mona Lisa for a hair-combing session, complete with an afro pick with a clenched fist on the handle.īeyoncé and Jay-Z are in the midst of their On the Run II tour and performed in London Stadium on June 16, the day the album dropped and the “Apeshit” video was released. Elsewhere in the museum, they work their hips before “The Coronation of Napoleon,” an 1807 painting by Jacques-Louis David. The dancers perform synchronized choregraphy on the grand Daru staircase that ascends up to the museum’s iconic Winged Victory of Samothrace, a marble Hellenistic sculpture dating from about the 2nd century B.C. ![]() Amid calls to diversify museums, she’s staged an intervention with a procession of black female dancers wearing nude-toned body suits in a spectrum of beige, tan, and brown. ![]() Powerful images have become Beyoncé’s stock-in-trade and in this regard the video doesn’t disappoint. The nine-track collaborative project is titled “Everything is Love” and both artists appear on every track including the first single “Apeshit,” the subject of the video. The Paris museum played host to the Carters who dropped a surprise album on Saturday. While the Louvre's guided tour, in French only for now, sticks to describing in detail each artwork featured in the video, the gallery above provides some clues as to their symbolism.FOR THEIR LATEST VIDEO, Beyoncé and Jay-Z took over the Louvre, stunting and styling through the galleries without a tourist in sight. Marie-Guillemine Benoist's Portrait of a Negress is one of the rare works depicting a woman with dark skin, and is just one of the symbolic works celebrated in the "Apes**t" video clip. It is rather filled with artworks associated with Napoleonic conquests, as well as numerous colonial acquisitions in its Egyptian gallery. Black dancers take over the space of the prestigious French museum, which, like all Western art museums, has little space dedicated to non-white artists. In the clip, a woman works on her friend's Afro in front of the Mona Lisa, as if they were in their own living room. However, the power couple's swagger is not the only aspect that's glorified in the video they also use their fame to empower and celebrate African-American identity. Jay-Z and Beyoncé adding color and movement to the Louvre's Classicism Image: SME, UMG (im Auftrag von Parkwood Entertainment/Roc Nation) Reservoir Media / - Beyoncé The Carters are reportedly worth more than $1 billion, according to CNN. ![]() The video is a definite celebration of the couple's own power, with Beyoncé singing "I can't believe we made it," while she and Jay-Z pose as icons of pop culture in front of some of the world's most famous classical works of art. Now the Louvre museum, where the video was shot, features a new tour of the 17 paintings and sculptures seen in the six-minute clip, from the monumental white Greek marble Nike of Samothrace to Marie Benoist's Portrait of a Negress. Beyoncé and Jay-Z's video for the song "Apes**t," from the Carters' surprise joint album Everything is Love, has been watched over 57 million times on Youtube since its release in June. ![]()
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