4/5/2024 0 Comments Ouvre jay z beyonce video![]() One of the closing scenes in the “Apesh-t” music video doubles as the Everything is Love album cover the scene shows two of the ensemble dancers, Jasmine Harper and Nicholas “Slick” Stewart in front of the Mona Lisa. Beyoncé and these other artists aren’t assimilating, but instead, staging this embodied intervention that disrupts more than it conforms to the logistics of Western art and Western museums.” The Album Cover YouTube I think what really stuck with me was the juxtaposition of subject portraits of white womanhood…the Mona Lisa with the Negress painting and then we have Beyoncé intervening in this narrative and also being so unapologetically black about it too. She continued: “Black women and black women artists are excluded from the history of Western art, but their bodies, particularly sexualized or desexualized in domestic labor or sexual labor, are there. It’s meant to symbolize what it means for a black person to not see their culture reflected in the history of Western art, but still seeing their bodies in it, which makes me think of the Negress portrait, where her breast is exposed and she’s hyper-sexualized,” Thomas says. “Carrie Mae Weems has a series called Museums 2006, where she’s standing in front of Western museums and she has one where she’s standing outside of the Louvre. Beyoncé’s nude bodysuit and her pose in the “S curve” of the statue draw an obvious parallel to the statue, but Thomas said it wasn’t a surprise since Bey’s birth announcement drew many an Aphrodite comparison. The Venus de Milo, an ancient Greek statue of the goddess Aphrodite, has long been held up as a standard of awe-inducing beauty. ![]() Beyoncé is a part of a tradition of not only black artists and performers, but activists too who find power in imagery like that because it connects them to an African past where there is a narrative of innovation and power.” Venus de Milo YouTube Museums are very deliberate about not considering Ancient Egypt within the history of African and black art instead, it’s often put together with ancient Greece and Rome, even though ancient Egypt is part of Africa. “I think one way that black artists and performers try to re-narrativize that is with imagery that we associate with ancient Egypt. The guide begins at the Winged Victory of Samothrace and takes guests to other popular art from the video, like the Ceiling of the Apollo Gallery and the "Portrait of a black woman," by Marie-Guillemine Benoist.“Part of the way the museum represents white supremacy in Western art and Western dominance is through a tracing of the past that sees ancient Greece and ancient Rome as the birthplace of civilization and democracy,” Thomas said. “The Beyoncé video, like the opening of the Louvre museum in Abu Dhabi, ensured that the Louvre was talked about across the world, and one of the consequences of that is the spectacular rise in visitor numbers last year.”īeyoncé and Jay-Z's impact was so profound that the Louvre even designed a special visitor's guide based on the art shown in the music video. “It’s clear that 2018 was a remarkable year for the international reputation of the Louvre,” the museum’s director, Jean-Luc Martinez, told a French radio, according to The Guardian. The Guardian reported that over 10.2 million people visited the museum in 2018, surpassing the museum's 2012 record of 9.7 million visitors, and beating out the National Museum of China and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York as the most popular museum. The "Apesh*t" video was viewed on YouTube over 147 million times since it was released last June. Shutting down the museum was a major feat for the couple, as they repeatedly sang "Can't believe we made it" throughout the song. Then you have Beyoncé and her phalanx of dancers occupying these traditionally white spaces by lying down on the steps in front of the Winged Victory of Samothrace statue, Jay and Bey standing in front of the Mona Lisa, and the singer's dancers dancing in front of the Consecration of the Emperor Napoleon and the Coronation of Empress Joséphine by Jacques Louis David. Historically, museums like the Louvre, which is filled with historical paintings and artwork from famous, majority white artists, are typically viewed as predominantly white spaces that are not always the most welcoming for people of color. But what happens when Beyoncé and Jay-Z sprinkle a little bit of their star power on the popular museum? In 2018, the Louvre saw a huge spike in visitors thanks largely to Beyoncé and Jay-Z's "Apesh*t" video, released last June.īeyoncé and Jay-Z renting out Paris' popular Louvre museum is probably one of the biggest flexes of 2018. Paris' famed Louvre is already one of the world's most visited attractions.
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