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/

Picasso's three musicians (2)












Pablo Picasso

Nous Autres Musiciens (1921)

Daddy Longlegs

The Three Musicians (1972)


Doré's Illustration to Tennyson's Idylls of the King












Gustave Doré

Merlin l'Enchanteur et la Fée Viviane (1868)

Burzum

The Ways of Yore (2014)


Wood's farm couple












Grant Wood

American Gothic (1930)

Dissension

We the Fooled

(1988)













Chuck Palahniuk

Expedition (2015)

Neil Young + Promise of the Real

The Monsanto Years (2015)

Various

Better Off Zed (Soundtrack) (2018)