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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H.R. Giger Debbie III (1981) |
Debbie Harry KooKoo (1981) |
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Charles Burns Skin Deep - Tales of Doomed Romance (1992) |
Iggy Pop Brick by Brick (1990) |
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Robert Smithson Amarillo Ramp (1973) |
Lee Ranaldo Amarillo Ramp (for Robert Smithson) (1997) |
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Leonardo Da Vinci La Dame à l'Hermine (Portrait de Cecilia Gallerani) (1490) |
Enigma The Platinum Collection (2010) |
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Keith Haring Untitled (1991) |
Various Jazz to the World (1995) |
Various World Christmas (1996) |
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Christian Marclay They Only Come Out at Night (1991) |
Mark Ronson & the Business Intl Record Collection (2010) |
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Alfred Hitchcock Cary Grant in North by Northwest (1959) |
Etienne Daho Singles (1998) |
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Jacques-Louis David La Mort de Marat (1793) |
Pearls Before Swine Constructive Melancholy - 30 Years of (1999) |
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Steve Goodman Say it in Private (1977) |
Cold Chisel East (1980) |
Akro L'Encre, la Sueur et le Sang (2006) |
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Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness (2008) |
Have a Nice Life Voids (2009) |
Andrew Bird My Finest Work Yet (2019) |
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Hugo Pratt Corto Maltese: La Ballade de la Mer Salée (1975) |
Nino Ferrer Concert chez Harry (1995) |
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Julian Schnabel Portrait of Elton John (1997) |
Elton John The Big Picture (1997) |
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Paul Morrissey Joe Dallesandro in Flesh (1968) |
The Smiths The Smiths (1984) |
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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) |
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Robert Indiana Love, Red/Blue (1966-69) |
Acen 75 Minutes (1994) |
Rage Against the Machine Renegades (alternate covers) (2000) |
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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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Robert Mapplethorpe Peter Reed (1980) |
Scissor Sisters Night Work (2010) |
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Edgar Degas Les Danseuses Bleues (1890) |
Cranes Loved (1994) |
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Damien Hirst Beautiful Helios Hysteria Intense Painting (2008) |
The Hours See the Light (2009) |
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Frida Kahlo Self-portrait (1940) |
Yael Naim Yael Naim (2010) |
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Edgar P. Jacobs La Marque Jaune (1956) |
Eddy Mitchell Live 2000 (2001) |