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 Mujer, Pájaro, Estrella (Homenaje a Picasso) (1973) |
Raimon Quan l'Aigua Es Queixa (1979) |
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William Eggleston Near Minter City and Glendora, Mississippi (1969-70) |
The Derek Trucks Band Soul Serenade (2003) |
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Francis Ford Coppola Marlon Brando in The Godfather (1972) |
Snoop Doggy Dog Tha Doggfather (1996) |
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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Portait de la Princesse Albert de Broglie (1853) |
They Might Be Giants Nanobots (2013) |
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Philippe Druillet Salammbô (1980) |
Various Cosmic Machine: A Voyage Across French Cosmic Electronic Avantgarde (1970-1980) (2013) |
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Philippe Druillet Yragaël ou la fin des temps (1974) |
Various Cosmic Machine: A Voyage Across French Cosmic Electronic Avantgarde (1970-1980) EP (2013) |
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Man Ray Les Larmes de Verre (1932) |
Kraftwerk Toccata Electronica (1995) |
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Pablo Picasso Nous Autres Musiciens (1921) |
Jim Hall Three (1986) |
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Ecole de Fontainebleau (Unknown) Portrait Présumé de Gabrielle d'Estrées et de sa Soeur la Duchesse de Villars (1594) |
Various Dirty Diamonds Vol.1 (2003) |
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Bernard Buffet Visage (1958) |
Ella Fitzgerald Sings The George And Ira Gershwin Song Book (1959) |
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Kiki Picasso Unknown (Unknown) |
Starshooter Chez les Autres (1980) |
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Charles Clyde Ebbets Lunch atop a Skyscraper (1932) |
The Saw Doctors To Win Just Once - The Best of (2009) |
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Lord Frederic Leighton The Sluggard (1885) |
Django Django Born under Saturn (2015) |
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David Hockney Untitled (2006) |
Tony Allen Black Voices (1999) |
Tony Allen Black Voices Revisited (2010) |
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Mark Rothko Untitled (No. 17) (1961) |
Jean-Michel Jarre Sessions 2000 (2002) |
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Bruce Lee The Way of the Dragon (1972) |
Bohren und der Club of Gore Gore Motel (1995) |
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Arnold Böcklin Die Toteninsel III (1883) |
Shearwater Missing Islands: Demos and Outtakes 2007-2012 (2014) |
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René Magritte La Lampe Philosophique (1936) |
Alan Hull Pipedream (1973) |
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Maxfield Parrish Daybreak (1922) |
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The Moody Blues The Present (1983) |
Dali's Car The Waking Hour (1984) |
Saint-Preux The Last Opera (1994) |
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César Compression (1970) |
Guided by Voices Do the Collapse (1999) |
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Paul Delaroche La Jeune Martyre (1855) |
This Ascension Light and Shade (1991) |
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Alfred Hitchcock Anthony Perkins in Psycho (1960) |
Coroner Mental Vortex (1991) |
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Sam Francis AN 8 -7 (JRFA #11228) (1963) |
The Dave Brubeck Quartet Time Changes (1964) |
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Gregory Crewdson Untitled from the Dreamhouse series (1998) |
Yo La Tengo And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out (2000) |