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/

Schlemmer's Bauhaus logo









Oskar Schlemmer

Staatliches Bauhaus - Weimar (1922)











Bauhaus

Singles 1979-83 Volume One (1986)

Bauhaus

Singles 1979-83 Volume Two (1986)












Bauhaus

Best of (2005)

Bauhaus

Live (2006)


Ingres' turkish bath














Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Le Bain Turc (1862)

Pete La Roca

Turkish Women at the Bath (1967)

The Don Ellis Orchestra

Electric Bath (1967)


Fellini's E la nave va












Federico Fellini

E la Nave Va (1983)

Various

Son of Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs and Chanteys (2013)


Matisse's Icarus














Henri Matisse

La Chute d'Icare (1943)

Wynton Marsalis

The Majesty of the Blues (1989)

Buvette

The Sun Disappeared EP (2014)