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/

Modigliani's portrait












Amedeo Modigliani

Portrait de Jeanne Hébuterne (1919)

Book of Love

Modigliani (Lost in your Eyes) (1987)


David's oath of the Horatii












Jacques-Louis David

Le Serment des Horaces (1784)

Lone Wolf

The Devil and I (2010)


Méliès' Trip to the moon




















Tuxedomoon

Live at the Savoy 03.01.81

(2010)

Decibel

Méliès (Música Inspirada En Los Filmes

De George Méliès) (2012)

Georges Méliès

Le Voyage dans la Lune (1902)

Air

Le Voyage dans la Lune

(2012)

Jeff Mills

A Trip to the Moon

(2017)