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/

Rodchenko's line













Aleksander Rodchenko

Line - Construction n°126 (1920)

The Soft Moon

Zeros (2012)


Szabo's almost grown series













Joseph Szabo

Almost Grown 16A (1978)

Dinosaur Jr.

Green Mind (1991)


Doré's Rime of the ancient mariner













Gustave Dorée

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1870)

Crash Test Dummiers

The Ghosts that Haunt Me (1991)


Kandinsky's squares and circles













Wassily Kandinsky

Colour Study: Squares with Concentric Circles (1913)

Ned's Atomic Dustbin

Are You Normal ? (1992)


Whales' Bride of Frankenstein













James Whale

Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

Devil Doll

The Girl Who Was... Death (1989)


Sheeler's landscape













Charles Sheeler

Classic Landscape (1931)

Brad Mehldau, Kevin Hays, Patrick Zimmerli

Modern Music (2013)


Vinci's Vitruvian man














Leonardo Da Vinci

L'Homme de Vitruve (1492)

Dr. Dopojam

Entrée (1973)

Jimi Hendrix

The Genius of Jimi Hendrix (1975)













Farben Lehre

My Maszyny

(1993)

Farben Lehre

Insekty (1995)

Farben Lehre

Zdrada (1996)












James Grant

Mythology (2005)

Boy Sets Fire

The Day the Sun Went out

(2005)

Various

The Da Vinci Lounge (2006)












Thee Majesty

Vitruvian Pan (2007)

Jeanne Cherhal

Charade

(2010)

Anthony David

As Above So Below (2011)












Busy P

Rainbowman (2007)

Rygar

Modulation (2012)

Clinton Bachman

Human Journey

(2015)












Prince Royce

Alter Ego (2020)


Magritte's rape












René Magritte

Le Viol (1934)

Rolling Stones

Angie (1973)


Hundertwasser's bleeding town













Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Good Morning City/BleedingTown (1969-71)

Public Image Limited

Happy? (1987)


Fleming's Wizard of Oz












Victor Fleming

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Elton John

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973)


Arcimboldo's four elements (water)












Giuseppe Arcimboldo

L'Acqua (1566)

Kansas

Masque (1975)


Rosenthal's flag raising




Joe Rosenthal

Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima (1945)

Canned Heat

Future Blues (1970)

The Electric Flag

The Band Kept Playing (1974)



Funkadelic

One Nation under a Groove (1978)

Good Rats

Great American Music (1981)

Helen Wheels Band

Post Modern Living (1981)



Uriah Heep

Conquest (1980)

Status Quo

In the Army Now (1986)

Savatage

Fight for the Rock (1986)



Anti-Flag

A New Kind of Army (1999)

Pretty Maids

Planet Panic (2002)

Wu-Tang Clan

Iron Flag (2004)

Munch's anxiety




Edvard Munch

Angst (1896)

Have a Nice Life

The Big Gloom (2006)