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Music: The Shortest Art History Class Ever

By Jen Paton / Culture Lust Intern
Published July 5, 2010 at 7:27 AM PDT
This story was published more than 14 years ago.

Why read E.H. Gombrich's weighty tome "The Story of Art" when you can watch Franco-American band Hold Your Horses' music video for "70 Million," which features playfully irreverent tableaux of various famous paintings:

70 Million by Hold Your Horses

Can you name each painting?

Perhaps you will need to crack open those books after all...

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