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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Katsushika Hokusai The (Great) Wave (off Kanagawa) (1829-32) |
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Cal Tjader Breeze from the East (1963) |
Jade Warrior Waves (1975) |
Australian Crawl The Final Wave (1986) |
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Neil Halstead Sleeping on Roads (2002) |
Indigo Girls Poseidon and the Bitter Bug (2009) |
Cavalcades Awaken Quite Alone EP (2010) |
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Alien Soap Opera Second Wave (1999) |
John Mayer As/Is (2004) |
Children Of Ishizuke Tree Entering the Ocean (2009) |
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Aidan Baker The Sea Swells a bit (2006) |
Svarta Stugan Main Theme (2012) |
Courtney Barnett The Double EP - A Sea of Split Peas (2014) |
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Athlete Vehicles and Animals (2004) |
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William Eggleston Greenwood, Mississippi (1973) |
Big Star Radio City (1974) |
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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) |
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Joseph Beuys Felt Suit (1970) |
Lloyd Cole Etc. (2000) |
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Battista di Domenico Lorenzi Alpheus & Arethusa (1568-70) |
Jay-Z Magna Carta Holy Grail (2013) |
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Stanley Kubrick The Shining (1980) |
White Lies Ritual (2011) |
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Dan Flavin Untitled (1969) |
Dan Flavin Untitled (1969) |
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Paul McCartney New (2013) |
Paul McCartney New (2013) |
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Paul Delaroche The Execution fo Lady Jane Grey (1833) |
Hole Letter to God (2010) |
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Room by the Sea (1951) |
Bruce Hornsby
Harbor Lights (1993) |
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Elia Kazan Richard Davalos and James Dean in East of Eden (1954) |
The Smiths Strangeways here we Come (1987) |
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Elia Kazan Richard Davalos and James Dean in East of Eden (1954) |
The Smiths Best... I (US version) (1992) |
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Elia Kazan Richard Davalos and Julie Harris in East of Eden (1954) |
The Smiths ...Best II (US version) (1992) |
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Giorgio De Chirico The Profit (1915) |
Thelonious Monk Quartet Misterioso (1958) |
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John William Waterhouse Saint Eulalia (1885) |
Fortuna A Radical Bravery (2009) |
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Andy Warhol Untitled Sketch (1950s) |
Kenny Burrell Blue Lights Volume 1 (1958) |
Kenny Burrell Blue Lights Volume 2 (1958) |
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Ansel Adams Jeffrey Pine, Sentinel Dome (1940) |
Brian May Another World (1998) |
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Anish Kapoor Untitled (2004) |
Vijay Iyer with Prasanna & Nitin Mitta Tirtha (2011) |
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Caravaggio Saint Jerome Writing (1605-06) |
Blood Thirsty Demons Mortal Remains (2007) |
E.S. Posthumus Cartographer (2008) |
