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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René Magritte Le Fils de l'Homme (1964) |
Suzanne Vega Nine Objects of Desire (1996) |
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René Magritte L'Heureux Donateur (1966) |
Spooky Tooth The Mirror (1974) |
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René Magritte Golconde (1953) |
Dreams Dreams (1970) |
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René Magritte La Lampe Philosophique (1936) |
Alan Hull Pipedream (1973) |
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René Magritte Les Mémoires d'un Saint (1960) |
Gladys Knight and the Pips Visions (1983) |
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René Magritte Le Viol (1934) |
Rolling Stones Angie (1973) |
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René Magritte Le Blanc-Seing (1965) |
Styx The Grand Illusion (1977) |
Oregon Out of the Woods (1978) |
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René Magritte La Reproduction Interdite (1937) |
Roger Daltrey One of the Boys (1977) |
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Lowcraft Manticore (1999) |
Christopher Cross Doctor Faith (2011) |
Laibach An Introduction to... (2012) |
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René Magritte Le Château des Pyrénées (1959) |
Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells (1973) |
 René Magritte Les Amants I & II (1928) |
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Funeral For a Friend Casually Dressed and Deep in Conversation (2003) |
Mars Volta Frances the Mute (2005) |
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Saint-Preux To Be or Not (1981) |
Punch Brothers The Phosphorescent Blues (2015) |
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René Magritte L'Empire des Lumières (1954) |
Jackson Browne Late for the Sky (1974) |
Kenny Burrell All Day Long/All Night Long (2007) |
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René Magritte La Chambre d'Ecoute (1958) |
Jeff Beck Beck-Ola (1969) |