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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Room by the Sea (1951) |
Bruce Hornsby
Harbor Lights (1993) |
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Elia Kazan Richard Davalos and James Dean in East of Eden (1954) |
The Smiths Strangeways here we Come (1987) |
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Elia Kazan Richard Davalos and James Dean in East of Eden (1954) |
The Smiths Best... I (US version) (1992) |
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Elia Kazan Richard Davalos and Julie Harris in East of Eden (1954) |
The Smiths ...Best II (US version) (1992) |
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Giorgio De Chirico The Profit (1915) |
Thelonious Monk Quartet Misterioso (1958) |
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John William Waterhouse Saint Eulalia (1885) |
Fortuna A Radical Bravery (2009) |
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Andy Warhol Untitled Sketch (1950s) |
Kenny Burrell Blue Lights Volume 1 (1958) |
Kenny Burrell Blue Lights Volume 2 (1958) |
