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/

Munch's anxiety




Edvard Munch

Angst (1896)

Have a Nice Life

The Big Gloom (2006)

Bayer's hands with eyes




Herbert Bayer

Lonesome City Dweller (1932)

The Chemical Brothers

We Are the Night (2007)

Bruegel's Mouth of Hell




Pieter Bruegel (the Elder)

Dulle Griet (1562)

Marvin Hood

52 steps to the Apocalypse (2012)

Richter's 858 series




Gerhard Richter

858: Eight Abstract Pictures (3) (1999)

Bill Frisell

Richter 858 (2005)

The day Ringo stood still




Robert Wise

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

Ringo Starr

Goodnight Vienna (1974)

Dali's Temptation of St. Anthony




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)

Dürer's Adam and Eve






Albrecht Dürer

Adam and Eve (1504)

Quiet Riot

Guilty Pleasures (2001)

Miro's sculptures






Joan Miró

Sculptures III (1974)

UB40

Labour of Love II (1989)

Warhol's monochrome car crash




Andy Warhol

Pink Car Crash (1963)



Hanni El Khatib

Dead Wrong (7") (2010)

Hanni El Khatib

Will the Guns Come out (2011)

Escher's reptiles












M.C. Escher

Reptiles (1943)

Mott the Hoople

Mott the Hoople (1969)


Vigée-Lebrun's Marie-Antoinette












Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun

Marie-Antoinette (1785)

Hole

Nobody's Daughter (2010)


Morandi's bottles












Giorgio Morandi

Untitled (1957)

Various

Blowin' the Blues (1959)


Haring's party people













Keith Haring

Untitled (1985)

Various

Red Hot+Dance (2002)


Hopper's biker couple









Dennis Hopper

Biker Couple (1961)











The Smiths

Best... I (1992)

The Smiths

...Best II (1992)


Raphael's school of Athens









Raphael

L'Ecole d'Athènes (1511)











Guns N' Roses

Use your Illusion I (1991)

Guns N' Roses

Use your Illusion II (1991)


Morris and Gosciny's Daltons













Morris & Gosciny

Lucky Luke (t.26)-Les Dalton se Rachètent (1965)

Siniestro Total

¿Cuando se come aqui? (1982)


Rousseau's negro attacked by a jaguar













Henri Rousseau

Nègre attaqué par un jaguar

(Forêt Vierge au Soleil Couchant) (1910)

Osibisa

Osibirock (1974)


Kapoor's blue void













Anish Kapoor

Blue Void (1992)

Vijay Iyer

Solo (2010)


Doré's divine comedy















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)


Post #100



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.












Peter Davies

The Hot One Hundred (1997)

Radiohead

Hail to the Thief (2003)


Van Doesburg's composition












Theo Van Doesburg

Composition VII (The Three Graces) (1917)

The White Stripes

De Stijl (2000)


Mapplethorpe's Lisa Lyon photo shoots











Robert Mapplethorpe

Lisa Lyon (1981)

Scissor Sisters

Fire with Fire (2010)












Robert Mapplethorpe

Lisa Lyon (1982)

Scissor Sisters

Any Which Way (2010)