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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Joan Miró People at Night (1940) |
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The Quintet (Bud Powell, Charles Mingus, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Max Roach) Jazz at Massey Hall Volume One (1953) |
The Quintet (Bud Powell, Charles Mingus, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Max Roach) Jazz at Massey Hall Volume Three (1953) |
The Quintet (Bud Powell, Charles Mingus, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Max Roach) Jazz at Massey Hall - The 10-Inch LP Collection (1953/2015) |
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J. Gordon Edwards Theda Bara in Cleopatra (1917) |
The Lumineers Cleopatra (2016) |
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Andreas Gursky Mayday V (2006) |
Various Mayday Worldclub Compilation (2006) |
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Unknown The Manesse Codex (1300-1340) |
Caravan A Knight in London (2004) |
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James Rizzi Multiple Impressions of City Living (1978) |
Tom Tom Club Tom Tom Club (1981) |
Tom Tom Club Close to the Bone (1983) |
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Ken Loach David Bradley in Kes (1969) |
Various The Smiths Is Dead (1996) |
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Enki Bilal La Femme Piège (Trilogie Nikopol) (1986) |
Erik Truffaz & Murcof Being Human Being (2012) |
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Unknown Uffington White Horse (1400-600 BC) |
XTC English Settlement (1982) |
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Andy Warhol Early Drawing (1950s) |
Various Progressive Piano (1952) |
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Ryan McGinley India Coyote (2010) |
Bat for Lashes The Haunted Man (2012) |
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Amedeo Modigliani Portrait de Jeanne Hébuterne (1919) |
Book of Love Modigliani (Lost in your Eyes) (1987) |
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Jacques-Louis David Le Serment des Horaces (1784) |
Lone Wolf The Devil and I (2010) |
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Tuxedomoon Live at the Savoy 03.01.81 (2010) |
Decibel Méliès (Música Inspirada En Los Filmes De George Méliès) (2012) |
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Georges Méliès Le Voyage dans la Lune (1902) |
Air Le Voyage dans la Lune (2012) |
Jeff Mills A Trip to the Moon (2017) |
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George Tuska Shark Brodie in Fight Comics n°13 (1940) |
Baap! Sweet Dreams, Baby! (2011) |
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Victor Vasarely CTA-25-BF (1965) |
David Bowie Space Oddity (1969-99) |
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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) |
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Charles Fréger Babugeri, Bulgaria from the Wilder Mann Series (2010-11) |
Hyperculte Hyperculte (2016) |
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Damien Hirst Heaven Above Hell Below (2003) |
Red Hot Chili Peppers I'm with You (2011) |
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Mark Rothko White Cloud (1956) |
Steve Lacy Sands (1998) |
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Caspar David Friedrich Zwei Männer in Betrachtung des Mondes (1819-20) |
Joe Walsh The Confessor (1985) |
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Caspar David Friedrich Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer (1818) |
Joe Walsh The Confessor (back) (1985) |
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Ed Ruscha Sand in the Vaseline (1974) |
Talking Heads Popular Favorites 1976-1992/Sand in the Vaseline (1992) |