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/

Tuska's Shark Brodie












George Tuska

Shark Brodie

in Fight Comics n°13 (1940)

Baap!

Sweet Dreams, Baby! (2011)


Vasarely's optical art












Victor Vasarely

CTA-25-BF (1965)

David Bowie

Space Oddity (1969-99)


Van Eyck's Adoration of the Mystic Lamb polyptych (detail)












Jan van Eyck

The Soldiers of Christ

left panel of the Ghent Altarpiece (1427-32)

Art of Noise

Into Battle with the Art of Noise (1983)


Fréger's wilder man












Charles Fréger

Babugeri, Bulgaria from the Wilder Mann Series (2010-11)

Hyperculte

Hyperculte (2016)


Hirst's pills and flies












Damien Hirst

Heaven Above Hell Below (2003)

Red Hot Chili Peppers

I'm with You (2011)


Rothko's white cloud












Mark Rothko

White Cloud (1956)

Steve Lacy

Sands (1998)


Friedrich's contemplative paintings



















Caspar David Friedrich

Zwei Männer in Betrachtung des Mondes (1819-20)

Joe Walsh

The Confessor

(1985)

Caspar David Friedrich

Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer (1818)

Joe Walsh

The Confessor (back)

(1985)


Ed Ruscha's Sand in the Vaseline












Ed Ruscha

Sand in the Vaseline (1974)

Talking Heads

Popular Favorites 1976-1992/Sand in the Vaseline (1992)


Johns' flag and Koons' rabbit













Jasper Johns

Flag (1967)

Jeff Koons

Rabbit (1986)








Various

John Cage to David Byrne: Four Decades Of Contemporary Music (2001)


Rockwell's portraits












Norman Rockwell

Richard M. Nixon (1968)

Mike Bloomfield & Al Kooper

The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield & Al Kooper (1969)


Michelangelo's creation of Adam












Michelangelo

The Creation of Adam (detail) (1508-12)

Prince

Lovesexy (1988)


Kubrick's Shining












Stanley Kubrick

Jack Nicholson in The Shining (1980)

Mr. Bungle

Goddammit, I Love America ! (EP) (1988)











Stanley Kubrick

Jack Nicholson in The Shining (1980)

Redd Kross & Melvins

New Year's Eve Ballroom Blitz (EP) (2012)


Basquiat's hip hop artwork












Jean-Michel Basquiat

Untitled Oil Drawing on Paper (unknown)

Rammellzee vs. K-Rob

Beat Bop (single) (1983)


Gautier Dagoty's Marie-Antoinette












Jean-Baptiste Gautier-Dagoty

Marie-Antoinette en grand habit de cour (1775)

Pi Corp

Let Them Eat Pi (Musik Spontano Electrik) (2010)


Schiele's autoportrait in red shirt












Egon Schiele

Selbstdarstellung mit rotem Hemd (1913)

Erik Friedlander's Chimera

The Watchman (1996)


Dali's soft watches












Salvador Dali

La Persistence de la Mémoire (1931)

Various

Rubber Folk: a Folk Tribute to the Beatles (2006)


Kapoor's mother as mountain












Anish Kapoor

Mother as Mountain (1985)

Vijay Iyer Trio

Accelerando (2012)


Pre-Raphaelite lying portrait













Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Couch (1870)

Henry Treffry Dunn

Jane Morris (1896-98)








David Bowie

The Man Who Sold the World (1971)


Filips' cityscape












Filips

Blues by Night (1987)

The Needles

Need some Action (1988)


Logoreci's urban landscape












Susan Logoreci

Silverlake Revisited (2004)

Lloyd Cole

Antidepressant (2006)


Böcklin's Pan and the blackbird












Arnold Böcklin

Pan Whistling at a Blackbird (1863)

Aurélien Merle

Remerle (2015)


Newton's walking models












Helmut Newton

Here They Come II (from the Big Nudes series) (1981)

Scorpions

Love at First Sting (US) (1984)