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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Anish Kapoor Mother as Mountain (1985) |
Vijay Iyer Trio Accelerando (2012) |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti The Couch (1870) |
Henry Treffry Dunn Jane Morris (1896-98) |
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David Bowie The Man Who Sold the World (1971) |
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Filips Blues by Night (1987) |
The Needles Need some Action (1988) |
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Susan Logoreci Silverlake Revisited (2004) |
Lloyd Cole Antidepressant (2006) |
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Arnold Böcklin Pan Whistling at a Blackbird (1863) |
Aurélien Merle Remerle (2015) |
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Helmut Newton Here They Come II (from the Big Nudes series) (1981) |
Scorpions Love at First Sting (US) (1984) |
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Roy Lichtenstein Whaam ! (1963) |
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The Weathermen Bang Bang ! (1989) |
Various Powerdance ! (back cover) (1990) |
UK Subs Yellow Leader (2015) |
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Various Powerdance ! (1990) |
Various Burning Sounds: 20 Killer Power Pop Cuts (2007) |
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Pablo Picasso Nous Autres Musiciens (1921) |
Daddy Longlegs The Three Musicians (1972) |
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Gustave Doré Merlin l'Enchanteur et la Fée Viviane (1868) |
Burzum The Ways of Yore (2014) |
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Grant Wood American Gothic (1930) |
Dissension We the Fooled (1988) |
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Chuck Palahniuk Expedition (2015) |
Neil Young + Promise of the Real The Monsanto Years (2015) |
Various Better Off Zed (Soundtrack) (2018) |
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René Magritte Les Mémoires d'un Saint (1960) |
Gladys Knight and the Pips Visions (1983) |
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Jean Cocteau Jean Marais in Orphée (1949) |
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The Smiths This Charming Man (1983) |
Cyndi Lauper True Colors (1986) |
Klimek Music to Fall Asleep (2006) |
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Sir Thomas Tresham Rushton Triangular Lodge (1593-97) |
Temples Sun Structures (2014) |
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Mark Rothko Red over Dark Blue on Dark Grey (1961) |
Morton Feldman Rothko Chapel / Why Patterns ? (1991) |
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Pierre Bismuth / Stefan Brüggemann Shallow (2008) |
Lupe Fiasco Lasers (2011) |
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William Eggleston Untitled Neon Confederate Flag (1980) |
Primal Scream Give out but Don't Give up (1994) |
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Jacques-Louis David La Mort de Socrate (1787) |
Undogmatic Undogmatism (2013) |
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Gilbert Shelton Further Adventures of those Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers (1972) |
Grateful Dead Shakedown Street (1975) |
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Piet Mondrian Tableau II (1921) |
Hose Hose EP (1983) |
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Paul Gauguin Deux Tahitiennes aux Fleurs de Mangue (1899) |
Michael Franks Objects of Desire (1982) |