The highly anticipated video for Kanye West’s latest single “Power” has finally been premiered. Kanye surprised everyone with his 90 second video claiming “It’s not a video….it’s a painting!” Indeed it was a painting, a moving painting. Inspired by Michelangelo’s frescos in the Sistine Chapel, the piece combines motion and imagery to depict a faux historical moment—an empire on the brink of collapse from its own excess, decadence, and corruption.
