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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Leonardo Da Vinci L'Homme de Vitruve (1492) |
Dr. Dopojam Entrée (1973) |
Jimi Hendrix The Genius of Jimi Hendrix (1975) |
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Farben Lehre My Maszyny (1993) |
Farben Lehre Insekty (1995) |
Farben Lehre Zdrada (1996) |
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James Grant Mythology (2005) |
Boy Sets Fire The Day the Sun Went out (2005) |
Various The Da Vinci Lounge (2006) |
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Thee Majesty Vitruvian Pan (2007) |
Jeanne Cherhal Charade (2010) |
Anthony David As Above So Below (2011) |
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Busy P Rainbowman (2007) |
Rygar Modulation (2012) |
Clinton Bachman Human Journey (2015) |
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Prince Royce Alter Ego (2020) |
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René Magritte Le Viol (1934) |
Rolling Stones Angie (1973) |
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Friedensreich Hundertwasser Good Morning City/BleedingTown (1969-71) |
Public Image Limited Happy? (1987) |
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Victor Fleming The Wizard of Oz (1939) |
Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973) |
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo L'Acqua (1566) |
Kansas Masque (1975) |
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| Joe Rosenthal Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima (1945) |
Canned Heat Future Blues (1970) |
The Electric Flag The Band Kept Playing (1974) |
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| Funkadelic One Nation under a Groove (1978) |
Good Rats Great American Music (1981) |
Helen Wheels Band Post Modern Living (1981) |
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| Uriah Heep Conquest (1980) |
Status Quo In the Army Now (1986) |
Savatage Fight for the Rock (1986) |
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| Anti-Flag A New Kind of Army (1999) |
Pretty Maids Planet Panic (2002) |
Wu-Tang Clan Iron Flag (2004) |
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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) |
