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".
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De Chirico's profit












Giorgio De Chirico

The Profit (1915)

Thelonious Monk Quartet

Misterioso (1958)


Waterhouse's Eulalia












John William Waterhouse

Saint Eulalia (1885)

Fortuna

A Radical Bravery (2009)


Warhol's sketch














Andy Warhol

Untitled Sketch (1950s)

Kenny Burrell

Blue Lights Volume 1

(1958)

Kenny Burrell

Blue Lights Volume 2

(1958)


Adams' bent tree












Ansel Adams

Jeffrey Pine, Sentinel Dome (1940)

Brian May

Another World (1998)


Kapoor's red rubber ball












Anish Kapoor

Untitled (2004)

Vijay Iyer with Prasanna & Nitin Mitta

Tirtha (2011)


Caravaggio's Saint Jerome














Caravaggio

Saint Jerome Writing (1605-06)

Blood Thirsty Demons

Mortal Remains (2007)

E.S. Posthumus

Cartographer (2008)


Pollock's White light













Jackson Pollock

White Light (1954)

Ornette Coleman Double Quartet

Free Jazz - A Collective Improvisation (1961)


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)