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/

Giger's Debbie












H.R. Giger

Debbie III (1981)

Debbie Harry

KooKoo (1981)


Burns' Skin Deep












Charles Burns

Skin Deep - Tales of Doomed Romance (1992)

Iggy Pop

Brick by Brick (1990)


Smithson's Amarillo Ramp












Robert Smithson

Amarillo Ramp (1973)

Lee Ranaldo

Amarillo Ramp (for Robert Smithson) (1997)


Leonardo's Portrait of a Lady with an Ermine












Leonardo Da Vinci

La Dame à l'Hermine (Portrait de Cecilia Gallerani) (1490)

Enigma

The Platinum Collection (2010)


Haring's World Party














Keith Haring

Untitled (1991)

Various

Jazz to the World (1995)

Various

World Christmas (1996)


Marclay's body mix series












Christian Marclay

They Only Come Out at Night (1991)

Mark Ronson & the Business Intl

Record Collection (2010)


Hitchcock's plane chase












Alfred Hitchcock

Cary Grant in North by Northwest (1959)

Etienne Daho

Singles (1998)


David's Marat












Jacques-Louis David

La Mort de Marat

(1793)

Pearls Before Swine

Constructive Melancholy - 30 Years of (1999)













Steve Goodman

Say it in Private

(1977)

Cold Chisel

East

(1980)

Akro

L'Encre, la Sueur et le Sang

(2006)













Have a Nice Life

Deathconsciousness

(2008)

Have a Nice Life

Voids

(2009)

Andrew Bird

My Finest Work Yet

(2019)


Pratt's Corto












Hugo Pratt

Corto Maltese: La Ballade de la Mer Salée (1975)

Nino Ferrer

Concert chez Harry (1995)


Schnabel's plate paintings












Julian Schnabel

Portrait of Elton John (1997)

Elton John

The Big Picture (1997)


Morrissey's Flesh












Paul Morrissey

Joe Dallesandro in Flesh (1968)

The Smiths

The Smiths (1984)


Fantin-Latour's basket of roses














Henri Fantin-Latour

Un Panier de Roses (1890)

New Order

Power, Corruption & Lies (1983)

Peter Hook and the Light

Power, Corruption & Lies Tour 2013

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


Indiana's Love series














Robert Indiana

Love, Red/Blue (1966-69)

Acen

75 Minutes (1994)

Rage Against the Machine

Renegades (alternate covers) (2000)


Magritte's Not to be reproduced













René Magritte

La Reproduction Interdite (1937)

Roger Daltrey

One of the Boys (1977)














Lowcraft

Manticore (1999)

Christopher Cross

Doctor Faith (2011)

Laibach

An Introduction to... (2012)


Mapplethorpe's rear view












Robert Mapplethorpe

Peter Reed (1980)

Scissor Sisters

Night Work (2010)


Degas' blue dancers












Edgar Degas

Les Danseuses Bleues (1890)

Cranes

Loved (1994)


Hirst's spin painting












Damien Hirst

Beautiful Helios Hysteria Intense Painting (2008)

The Hours

See the Light (2009)


Kahlo's self-portrait with monkeys












Frida Kahlo

Self-portrait (1940)

Yael Naim

Yael Naim (2010)


Jacobs' Yellow M












Edgar P. Jacobs

La Marque Jaune (1956)

Eddy Mitchell

Live 2000 (2001)