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".
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Moai












Unknown

Moai monoliths, Polynesia (C 13th-15th)

The Stranglers

Dark Matters (2021)


Morris' Mississippi












Morris/René Goscinny

Lucky Luke n°16: En Remontant le Mississippi (1961)

Dick Rivers

Mississippi River's (1975)


Sugimoto's horizon












Hiroshi Sugimoto

Boden Sea Uttwil (1993)

U2

No Line on the Horizon (2009)


Magritte's apple of the eye












René Magritte

Le Fils de l'Homme (1964)

Suzanne Vega

Nine Objects of Desire (1996)


Caravaggio's burial of Saint Lucy












Caravaggio

The Burial of Saint Lucy (1608)

Skid Row

Slave to the Grind (1991)


Escher's eye












M.C. Escher

It's all in the Eye (1946)

La Casa Usher

Obsesión (single) (1992)


Solé's Zappa's stinking foot














Jean Solé

Stink Foot (1975)

Jean Solé & Gotlib

Panard Schlingage (1975)

Mothers of Invention

'tis the Season to Be Jelly - Live in Sweden (1967)

(2003)


Dreyer's Joan of Arc












Carl Theodor Dreyer

Joan of Arc (1927)

Adorable

Sunshine Smile (1992)


Millais' Raleigh brothers












John Everett Millais

Boyhood of Raleigh (1870)

Talk Talk

It's My Life (1984)


Valeri's Stendhal portrait












Silvestro Valeri

Stendhal en Uniforme de Consul (1835-36)

Idles

Stendhal Syndrome (EP) (2017)


Lichtenstein's car












Roy Lichstenstein

In the Car (1963)

Bobby "O"

I Cry For You (EP) (1983)













Peter Gallagher

L'Etranger (unknown)

Bob Dylan

World Gone Wrong (1993)


Kubrick's Clockwork Orange












Stanley Kubrick

Clockwork Orange (1971)

True Sounds of Liberty

Beneath the Shadows (TSOL) (1982)


Van Gogh's Sunflowers












Vincent Van Gogh

Sunflowers (1888)

GlowStone

El Girasol EP (2012)


Mondrian's primary colours (3)

Piet Mondrian

Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow

(1930)

Internationales Geräuschorchester / Karnataka College Of Percussion

Tone Soul Evolution

(1985)

Bert Stern's The last sitting (Marilyn)












Bert Stern

Marilyn Monroe - Crucifix III (from The Last Sitting) (1962)

Lloyd Cole

Lloyd Cole (also known as X) (1990)


Facteur Cheval's ideal palace












Ferdinand Cheval, dit le Facteur Cheval

Palais Idéal (1879-1912)

Magik Markers

Balf Quarry (2009)


Magritte's Happy donor












René Magritte

L'Heureux Donateur (1966)

Spooky Tooth

The Mirror (1974)


Browne's burning monk












Malcolm Browne

Burning Monk (1963)

Rage Against the Machine

Rage Against the Machine (1992)


Dali's slave market with the disappearing bust of Voltaire












Salvador Dali

Marché d'Esclaves(avec apparition du buste invisible de Voltaire) (1940)

Alice Cooper

DaDa (1983)


Leighton's Flaming June












Lord Frederick Leighton

Flaming June (1895)

Malcolm McLaren And The Bootzilla Orchestra

Waltz Darling (1989)


Schiele's autumn trees












Egon Schiele

Autumn Trees (1911)

Rachel's

Music for Egon Schiele (1996)


Giger's Satan












H.R. Giger

Satan I (1973)

Celtic Frost

To Mega Therion (1985)


Whale's Bride of Frankenstein (2)













James Whale

Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

Heins Hoffman-Richter

Music To Freak Your Friends And Break Your Lease (1974)


Leonardo's Codex Atlanticus












Leonardo Da Vinci

Canon study from Codex Atlanticus (1478-1518)

Family

Anyway (1970)