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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| Edvard Munch
Angst (1896) |
Have a Nice Life
The Big Gloom (2006) |
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| Herbert Bayer
Lonesome City Dweller (1932) |
The Chemical Brothers
We Are the Night (2007) |
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| Pieter Bruegel (the Elder)
Dulle Griet (1562) |
Marvin Hood
52 steps to the Apocalypse (2012) |
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| Gerhard Richter
858: Eight Abstract Pictures (3) (1999) |
Bill Frisell
Richter 858 (2005) |
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| Robert Wise
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) |
Ringo Starr
Goodnight Vienna (1974) |
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| Salvador Dali La Tentation de Saint Antoine (1946) |
The Contrast God of Malfunction (2010) |
John Zorn On the Torment of Saints, the Casting of Spells and the Evocation of Spirits (2013) |
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| Albrecht Dürer
Adam and Eve (1504) |
Quiet Riot
Guilty Pleasures (2001) |
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Joan Miró
Sculptures III (1974) |
UB40
Labour of Love II (1989) |
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| Andy Warhol
Pink Car Crash (1963) |
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| Hanni El Khatib
Dead Wrong (7") (2010) |
Hanni El Khatib
Will the Guns Come out (2011) |
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M.C. Escher Reptiles (1943) |
Mott the Hoople Mott the Hoople (1969) |
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Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun Marie-Antoinette (1785) |
Hole Nobody's Daughter (2010) |
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Giorgio Morandi Untitled (1957) |
Various Blowin' the Blues (1959) |
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Keith Haring Untitled (1985) |
Various Red Hot+Dance (2002) |
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Dennis Hopper Biker Couple (1961) |
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The Smiths Best... I (1992) |
The Smiths ...Best II (1992) |
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Raphael L'Ecole d'Athènes (1511) |
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Guns N' Roses Use your Illusion I (1991) |
Guns N' Roses Use your Illusion II (1991) |
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Morris & Gosciny Lucky Luke (t.26)-Les Dalton se Rachètent (1965) |
Siniestro Total ¿Cuando se come aqui? (1982) |
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Henri Rousseau Nègre attaqué par un jaguar (Forêt Vierge au Soleil Couchant) (1910) |
Osibisa Osibirock (1974) |
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Anish Kapoor Blue Void (1992) |
Vijay Iyer Solo (2010) |
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Gustave Doré La Divine Comédie: Inferno, Canto 10 (1861-68) |
Os Mutantes A Divina Comédia ou Ando Meio Desligado (1970) |
Skinny Puppy Dig it (1986) |
| Here we are, post #100. This weblog features more than 70 different visual artists from the 16th century to the present time and contains about 150 album covers up to now. Beside making new additions, I am also thinking of a new project. I'll keep you posted. Thanks to all the people who stopped by and especially to those who sent me a message, made suggestions or shared links. I really appreciate. |
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Peter Davies The Hot One Hundred (1997) |
Radiohead Hail to the Thief (2003) |
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Theo Van Doesburg Composition VII (The Three Graces) (1917) |
The White Stripes De Stijl (2000) |
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Robert Mapplethorpe Lisa Lyon (1981) |
Scissor Sisters Fire with Fire (2010) |
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Robert Mapplethorpe Lisa Lyon (1982) |
Scissor Sisters Any Which Way (2010) |