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 night hawks












Edward Hopper

Night Hawks (1942)

Eggs Over Easy

Good 'n' Cheap (1974)













The Nighthawks

Open All Nite (1976)

Mikael Wiehe

Basin Street Blues (1994)

Thomas Bacon/Philip Moll

Nighhawks-Music of Alec Wilder (1995)


Rubens' crucifixion












Peter Paul Rubens

Crucifixion (1606-10)

Die Toten Hosen

Alles Wird Gut (1990)


Escher meets Lynch









David Lynch

Jack Nance in Eraserhead

(1977)

No Comment

Common Senseless

(1989)

M.C. Escher

Encounter

(1944)



Twin Arrows












Unknown

Twin Arrows Trading Post,

Flagstaff, AZ (Unknown)

Blue States

Man Mountain (2002)


Dali's Geopoliticus child












Salvador Dali

Enfant géopolitique observant la naissance de l'homme nouveau

(1943)

James Gang

Newborn (1975)