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/
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| Joe Rosenthal Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima (1945) |
Canned Heat Future Blues (1970) |
The Electric Flag The Band Kept Playing (1974) |
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| Funkadelic One Nation under a Groove (1978) |
Good Rats Great American Music (1981) |
Helen Wheels Band Post Modern Living (1981) |
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| Uriah Heep Conquest (1980) |
Status Quo In the Army Now (1986) |
Savatage Fight for the Rock (1986) |
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| Anti-Flag A New Kind of Army (1999) |
Pretty Maids Planet Panic (2002) |
Wu-Tang Clan Iron Flag (2004) |
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| Edvard Munch
Angst (1896) |
Have a Nice Life
The Big Gloom (2006) |
