Serge Gainsbourg considered popular music as a minor art compared to painting and sculpture. While record covers are true products of the pop culture, they sometimes borrowed to the fine arts. Numerous examples of sleeves are obvious imitations or reproductions of famous works of art, denoting either a genuine devotion or a deliberate attempt to gain artistic credit (or both). In return, some contemporary figures in the visual arts fairly understood the benefit in contributing, directly or not, to popular music, and thus reaching a much larger audience. How many rock fans discovered Andy Warhol with the famous Velvet Underground banana ? This website is about record covers and arts.

Music Artwork has been featured in an article entitled "50 Resources for Students Attending Online Liberal Arts Schools".
http://www.onlineschools.org/online-liberal-arts-schools/

Hopper's room by the sea




Edward Hopper

Room by the Sea (1951)

Bruce Hornsby

Harbor Lights (1993)

Kazan's East of Eden











Elia Kazan

Richard Davalos and James Dean in East of Eden (1954)

The Smiths

Strangeways here we Come (1987)











Elia Kazan

Richard Davalos and James Dean in East of Eden (1954)

The Smiths

Best... I (US version) (1992)












Elia Kazan

Richard Davalos and Julie Harris in East of Eden (1954)

The Smiths

...Best II (US version) (1992)


De Chirico's profit












Giorgio De Chirico

The Profit (1915)

Thelonious Monk Quartet

Misterioso (1958)


Waterhouse's Eulalia












John William Waterhouse

Saint Eulalia (1885)

Fortuna

A Radical Bravery (2009)


Warhol's sketch














Andy Warhol

Untitled Sketch (1950s)

Kenny Burrell

Blue Lights Volume 1

(1958)

Kenny Burrell

Blue Lights Volume 2

(1958)