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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Burns' dark world


Charles Burns Black Hole (1995-2005)	Fever Ray Fever Ray (2009)

Delacroix's orphan


Eugène Delacroix Jeune Orpheline au Cimetière (1824)	Pickering Pick The Pacific Ocean (2007)

Depero's futurismo


Fortunato Depero Futurismo (1932)	New Order Movement (1981)

Daniele Lombardi & Susanna Rigacci

Futurlieder (2006)

Daniele Lombardi

Futurpiano (2009)

Peter Hook and the Light

Movement Tour 2013

Live in Dublin The Academy 22/11/13 (2017)


Fortunato Depero Dinamo Futurista (1933)	New Order Procession (1981)

Basquiat's chalk drawings


Jean-Michel Basquiat Untitled (Sugar Ray Robinson) (1982)	The Offs First Record (1984)

Croner's taxi


Ted Croner Taxi, New York Night (1947)	Bob Dylan Modern Times (2006)

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)