‘Red Velvet’ has been trending for a while for their enchantingly stunning visual showcased in their latest music video ‘Feel My Rhythm’.
From promotions pictures and teasers on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Reddit—these vocal queens really captivated the heart of their fans globally.
This is their highly-anticipated comeback with their latest EP, “The ReVe Festival 2022”. The mini-album is the quintet’s first release for the year, following their EP “Queendom” in August 2021.
The overall visual that Red Velvet portrayed is the art of being a picturesque woman in the spring time. They literally brought their fans and listeners into the world of classics with this type of genre and concept they showed.
Here are some of the art references they used in the recent music video release:
THE SWING
In here, Irene transforms into the subject of The Swing by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, a French painter and printmaker. The recreated image displays the natural scene of the original painting and Irene’s elegance through her dress and expression. ‘The Swing’ is one of the masterpieces in Rocco’s era and was considered as Fragonard’s best work.
OPHELIA
Red Velvet Joy captures the essence of Ophelia by English painter and illustrator John Everett Millais. The original painting depicts the character Ophelia from William Shakespeare ‘s Hamlet, who drowns in a river. Joy’s upturned hands mirror the positioning perfectly.
NYMPHS
Nymphs Finding the Head of Orpheus is an oil painting by the English Pre-Raphaelite painter by John William Waterhouse. It shows the head of Orpheus, of ancient Greek legend, after he has died. This less grim depiction has Joy playing the part of Orpheus and Yeri and Wendy shown as the nymphs.
OVER THE WALL
Seulgi looking over the wall can be a representation in the scene of the The Curious Little Girl by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, a figure painting of a girl in contemporary life. He was a French landscape and portrait painter as well as a printmaker whose outputs referenced the Neo-Classical tradition.
WOMAN WITH A PARASOL
Woman with a Parasol — Madame Monet and Her Son was an 1875 piece by Claude Monet. It evokes a bright and lively feeling with a casual family outing. The vibrant colors used in “Feel My Rhythm” is a perfect representation of this one. Monet’s work depicted his wife Camille Monet and their son Jean Monet in the period from 1871 to 1877 while they were living in Argenteuil, capturing a moment on a stroll on a windy summer’s day.
THE BIRTH OF VENUS
Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, known as Sandro Botticelli, was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. The Birth of Venus depicts Venus, goddess of love and beauty, on the shore after being born of the sea. Yeri plays the part of the goddess as the others dance around her. Other similarities include the flowers being tossed around and the ground illustrating water.
CONCLUSION
‘Red Velvet’ is known as the K-pop group with equally brilliant vocals and visuals. This concept is screaming perfection most especially to artists and people who have splendid eyes and ears when it comes to a genre and an art-inspired music like this one. They are indeed the concept queens. No questions asked. The six-track album also has several dance, R&B, and ballad tracks with the following titles: “Rainbow Halo,” “Beg For Me,” “Bamboleo,” “Good, Bad, Ugly,” and “In My Dreams.”
