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".
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Mapplethorpe's portraits of Patti Smith




















Robert Mapplethorpe

Self-portrait (1980)

Patti Smith

Horses (1975)

Patti Smith

Wave (1979)

Patti Smith

Dream of Life (1988)


Manet's luncheon
























Edouard Manet

Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe (1863)

Bow Wow Wow

See Jungle! See Jungle!

Go Join Your Gang Yeah!

City All Over, Go Ape Crazy! (1981)

Big Thief

U.F.O.F. (2019)

Bow Wow Wow

See Jungle! See Jungle!

Go Join Your Gang Yeah!

City All Over, Go Ape Crazy! (1981)


Hirst's skull














Damien Hirst

For the Love of God (2007)

Boys Noize

Oi Oi Oi (2007)

Good Charlotte

Greatest Remixes (2008)


Hockney's composite polaroid II












David Hockney

Don and Christopher (1982)

Christophe

Aimer ce que Nous Sommes (2008)


Crumb's cartoon












Robert Crumb

Fritz the Cat (1969)

Big Brother and the Holding Company

Cheap Thrills (1968)


Delacroix's Liberty














Eugène Delacroix

La Liberté Guidant le Peuple (1830)

Coldplay

Viva La Vida or

Death and All his Friends (2008)

Richard Cheese

Viva La Vodka (Live) (2009)


Keith Haring's Xmas























































Keith Haring

Mother and Child (1986)

Various

A Very Special Christmas (1990)

Various

A Very Special Christmas 2 (1992)

Various

A Very Special Christmas 3 (1997)

Various

A Very Special Christmas Live (1999)

Various

A Very Special Christmas 5 (2001)

Various

Playlist Plus: A Very Special Christmas 3

(2008)

Various

A Very Special Christmas 7 (2009)

Various

A Very Special Christmas Volume 1+2+DVD

(2010)

Various

A Very Special Christmas: Today's Top

Christian Arstists Bringing Peace on Earth

(2012)

Various

A Very Special Christmas

25 Years Bringing Joy to the World

(2012)

Various

A Very Special Christmas (Icon)

(2013)

Various

A Very Special Christmas

The Story and the Music

(2014)


Magritte's dusk














René Magritte

L'Empire des Lumières (1954)

Jackson Browne

Late for the Sky (1974)

Kenny Burrell

All Day Long/All Night Long (2007)


Richter's candles












Gerhard Richter

Two Candles (1982)

Sonic Youth

Daydream Nation (1988)


Géricault's Medusa










Théodore Géricault

Le Radeau de la Méduse (1819)














The Pogues

Rum, Sodomy and the Lash (1985)

Great White

Sail Away (1994)

Ahab

The Divinity of Oceans (2009)


Warhol's boxes












Andy Warhol

Brillo Boxes (1969)

Moloko

Catalogue (2006)


Hockney's composite polaroid












David Hockney

Portrait of John Kasmin (1980)

Talking Heads

More Songs about Buildings and Food (1978)


Pollock's dripping












Jackson Pollock

Number 8 (1949)

The Stone Roses

The Stone Roses (1989)


Bosch's triptych









Hieronymus Bosch

The Garden of Earthly Delights (1504)













Pearls Before Swine

One Nation Underground (1967)

Deep Purple

Deep Purple (1969)

Sun Ra and his Intergalactic

Research Arkestra

It's After the End of the World - Live at

the Donaueschingen and Berlin Festivals

(1971)











Celtic Frost

Into the Pandemonium (1987)

Dead Can Dance

Aion (1990)