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(In 1794, the French emancipation proclamation liberated the colonies in 1802, Napoleon reinstated slavery.) In that six-year span, portraits of heroic black people became popular in France, and that created an opportunity for an image of a black woman who is not tending to or subordinate to a white person, who is instead considered worthy of being at the center of her own portrait.Īs Smalls has pointed out, in its full context, “Portrait” is not a wildly politically subversive image. Wikimedia Commons/ Jean-noīenoist painted “Portrait” in 1800, during a brief period in which France had abolished colonial slavery. And it’s the painting that appears at the end of the “Apeshit” video, after shot after shot of portraits of white people. “That painting is an anomaly because it presents a black person as the sole aestheticized subject and object of a work of art,” Smalls says. One of the few exceptions to that trend is Marie Benoist’s “ Portrait d’une négresse,” also displayed at the Louvre. #Beyoncé #EverythingIsLove /IMrVlyl6wf- Queen Curly Fry June 17, 2018 Beyoncé’s vision and talent is unmatched. This moment right here is the fulfillment of my art history degree. Y’all this #Apeshit video has me losing my shit. And coming from a black woman, that’s a radical statement. So when Beyoncé shoots at the Louvre - taking on by turns the poses of Venus de Milo and Victory - she’s continuing an artistic project of recontextualizing classical Western art, of making herself the aesthetic object on which so much wealth and cultural capital has been spent. Her pregnancy announcement photo shoot and her birth announcement photo shoot both referenced Botticelli’s Venus and the Renaissance trope of the Madonna and child, and her 2017 Grammys performance drew on goddess imagery from multiple artistic traditions. For the past few years, Beyoncé has increasingly cribbed from the iconography of classical Western art in her own image-making. If you want to show that you have made it, that you are rich and powerful and one of the greatest artists of your generation, you go to the Louvre.Īnd as an artistic choice, the Louvre is par for Beyoncé’s course.
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But music videos aren’t about numbers they’re about how things feel - and there’s no place on earth that feels as lavish, as rich with accumulated cultural power and wealth and colonialism, as the Louvre. And to prove that she and her husband have made it, in the song’s accompanying video, Beyoncé delivers this line from the Louvre.Īs the New York Times has pointed out, it is not actually that expensive to shoot a video in the Louvre (about $17,500 for a full day’s shoot). JAY is stoic but Beyoncé is in beast mode serving scatty choreography in a white Stephane Rolland couture gown with the precision of an icon.“I can’t believe we made it,” sings Beyoncé in “Apeshit,” the first single from her surprise joint album with Jay-Z, Everything Is Love. Towards the end of the visual there's a shot of Beyoncé and JAY-Z in front of the Winged Victory of Samothrace. One specific moment has caught the attention of the internet though so much so that it's now been turned into a challenge. The scene of Jasmine Harper picking out Nicholas $lick Stewart's afro in front of the Mona Lisa is particularly moving, as are those of Beyoncé and her girl squad dancing in front of The Consecration of the Emperor Napoleon and the Coronation of Empress Joséphine. The hit visual has been widely praised not just for its aesthetic but for the way in which it centres black bodies in a historically white space. The legendary couple also dropped a stunning music video for the album's lead single 'APESHIT' that is set in the actual Louvre.