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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Oskar Schlemmer Staatliches Bauhaus - Weimar (1922) |
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Bauhaus Singles 1979-83 Volume One (1986) |
Bauhaus Singles 1979-83 Volume Two (1986) |
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Bauhaus Best of (2005) |
Bauhaus Live (2006) |
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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Le Bain Turc (1862) |
Pete La Roca Turkish Women at the Bath (1967) |
The Don Ellis Orchestra Electric Bath (1967) |
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Federico Fellini E la Nave Va (1983) |
Various Son of Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs and Chanteys (2013) |
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Henri Matisse La Chute d'Icare (1943) |
Wynton Marsalis The Majesty of the Blues (1989) |
Buvette The Sun Disappeared EP (2014) |
