music artwork

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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Goya's Saturn

Francesco de Goya

Saturn Devouring his Son (1819-23)

Trisomie 21

Chapter IV: Le je ne sais quoi et le presque rien

(1986)

The Obsessed

Lunar Womb (1991)

Margerin's rocker


Franck Margerin Bananes Métalliques (1982)	Nino Ferrer Rock 'n' Roll Cowboy (1983)

Magritte's lovers

René Magritte Les Amants I & II (1928)
	Funeral For a Friend Casually Dressed and Deep in Conversation (2003)	Mars Volta Frances the Mute (2005)

	Saint-Preux To Be or Not (1981)	Punch Brothers The Phosphorescent Blues (2015)

Buñuel's Andalusian dog


Luis Buñuel Un Chien Andalou (1929)	Mr. Oizo Lambs Anger (2008)

El Greco's Knight


El Greco The Knight with His Hand on His Breast (1590)	Vangelis El Greco (1998)

Giger's aliens


H.R. Giger Alien (1979)	Shiver Walpurgis (1969)


Island Pictures (1977)	Danzig III: How the Gods Kill (1992)	Emerson Lake and Palmer Then and Now (1998)

Munch's scream


Edvard Munch The Scream (1893)	Morgen Morgen (1969)

Warhol's soup can

Andy Warhol

Campbell's Soup Can (1964)


Buckethead & Travis Dickerson Chicken Noodles (2006)	The Housemartins / The Beautiful South Soup (2007)	Mondo Generator Dog Food (2010)


Bernard Herrmann Campbell Playhouse (1974)	Buckethead & Travis Dickerson Chicken Noodles II (2007)

Bruegel's proverbs


Pieter Bruegel the Elder Netherlandish Proverbs (1559)	Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes (2008)

Liberatore's RanX


Tanino Liberatore / Stefano Tamburini RanXerox à New York (1982)	Frank Zappa The Man from Utopia (1983)

Dali's crucifixion


Salvador Dali Christ of Saint John of the Cross (1951)	Cliff Richard About that Man... (1970)


Klaus Schulze Picture Music (1975)	Mercyless Abject Offerings (1991)	Faith Salvation Lies Within (2003)

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)