music artwork

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/

Edwards' Cleopatra


J. Gordon Edwards Theda Bara in Cleopatra (1917)	The Lumineers Cleopatra (2016)

Gursky's mayday


Andreas Gursky Mayday V (2006)	Various Mayday Worldclub Compilation (2006)

German miniature


Unknown The Manesse Codex (1300-1340)	Caravan A Knight in London (2004)

Rizzi's city life

James Rizzi

Multiple Impressions of City Living (1978)

Tom Tom Club

Tom Tom Club

(1981)

Tom Tom Club

Close to the Bone (1983)

Loach's Kes


Ken Loach David Bradley in Kes (1969)	Various The Smiths Is Dead (1996)

Bilal's androids


Enki Bilal La Femme Piège (Trilogie Nikopol) (1986)	Erik Truffaz & Murcof Being Human Being (2012)

Uffington White Horse


Unknown Uffington White Horse (1400-600 BC)	XTC English Settlement (1982)

Warhol's hands


Andy Warhol Early Drawing (1950s)	Various Progressive Piano (1952)

McGinley's nude with animal


Ryan McGinley India Coyote (2010)	Bat for Lashes The Haunted Man (2012)

Modigliani's portrait


Amedeo Modigliani Portrait de Jeanne Hébuterne (1919)	Book of Love Modigliani (Lost in your Eyes) (1987)

David's oath of the Horatii


Jacques-Louis David Le Serment des Horaces (1784)	Lone Wolf The Devil and I (2010)

Méliès' Trip to the moon


	Tuxedomoon Live at the Savoy 03.01.81 (2010)	Decibel Méliès (Música Inspirada En Los Filmes De George Méliès) (2012)

Georges Méliès Le Voyage dans la Lune (1902)	Air Le Voyage dans la Lune (2012)	Jeff Mills A Trip to the Moon (2017)

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)