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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Hirst's spin painting 2














Damien Hirst

Beautiful, shattering, slashing, violent,

pinky, hacking, sphincter painting (1995)

Babyshambles

Sequel of the Prequel

(2013)

Babyshambles

Sequel of the Prequel (Deluxe Edition)

(2013)


Beuys' hanging suit












Joseph Beuys

Felt Suit (1970)

Lloyd Cole

Etc. (2000)


Lorenzo's Alpheus capturing Arethusa












Battista di Domenico Lorenzi

Alpheus & Arethusa (1568-70)

Jay-Z

Magna Carta Holy Grail (2013)


Kubrick's Shining twin girls












Stanley Kubrick

The Shining (1980)

White Lies

Ritual (2011)


Dan Flavin's neon lights











Dan Flavin

Untitled (1969)

Dan Flavin

Untitled (1969)












Paul McCartney

New (2013)

Paul McCartney

New (2013)


Delaroche's execution of a lady












Paul Delaroche

The Execution fo Lady Jane Grey (1833)

Hole

Letter to God (2010)


Hopper's room by the sea




Edward Hopper

Room by the Sea (1951)

Bruce Hornsby

Harbor Lights (1993)

Kazan's East of Eden











Elia Kazan

Richard Davalos and James Dean in East of Eden (1954)

The Smiths

Strangeways here we Come (1987)











Elia Kazan

Richard Davalos and James Dean in East of Eden (1954)

The Smiths

Best... I (US version) (1992)












Elia Kazan

Richard Davalos and Julie Harris in East of Eden (1954)

The Smiths

...Best II (US version) (1992)


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)