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".
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Lichtenstein's explosion












Roy Lichtenstein

Explosion (1967)

Bob Dylan

Shot of Love (1981)


Flavin's fluorescent light












Dan Flavin

The Diagonal of Personal Ecstasy (The Diagonal of May 25) (1963)

Philip Glass

Einstein on the Beach (1993)


Warhol jazz













Andy Warhol

Money Tree (1957)

Jay Jay Johnson

Trombone by Three (1956)

Kenny Burrell

Volume 2 (1957)


Titian's Bacchus













Titian

Bacchus and Ariadne (1522-23)

Crash Test Dummies

God Shuffled his Feet (1993)

"Weird Al" Jankovic

Headline News / Christmas at Ground Zero

(Alternate Mix) (1994)


Doisneau's artist portraits












Robert Doisneau

Jacques Prévert (1955)

Thomas Fersen

Le Bal des Oiseaux (1993)


Botero's family












Fernando Botero

Una Familia (1989)

Baby Grand

Baby Grand (1977)


Burns' dark world












Charles Burns

Black Hole (1995-2005)

Fever Ray

Fever Ray (2009)


Delacroix's orphan












Eugène Delacroix

Jeune Orpheline au Cimetière (1824)

Pickering Pick

The Pacific Ocean (2007)


Depero's futurismo












Fortunato Depero

Futurismo (1932)

New Order

Movement (1981)












Daniele Lombardi & Susanna Rigacci

Futurlieder (2006)

Daniele Lombardi

Futurpiano (2009)

Peter Hook and the Light

Movement Tour 2013

Live in Dublin The Academy 22/11/13 (2017)










Fortunato Depero

Dinamo Futurista (1933)

New Order

Procession (1981)


Basquiat's chalk drawings












Jean-Michel Basquiat

Untitled (Sugar Ray Robinson) (1982)

The Offs

First Record (1984)


Croner's taxi












Ted Croner

Taxi, New York Night (1947)

Bob Dylan

Modern Times (2006)


Goya's Saturn














Francesco de Goya

Saturn Devouring his Son (1819-23)

Trisomie 21

Chapter IV: Le je ne sais quoi et le presque rien

(1986)

The Obsessed

Lunar Womb (1991)


Margerin's rocker












Franck Margerin

Bananes Métalliques (1982)

Nino Ferrer

Rock 'n' Roll Cowboy (1983)


Magritte's lovers




















René Magritte

Les Amants I & II (1928)

Funeral For a Friend

Casually Dressed and Deep in Conversation

(2003)

Mars Volta

Frances the Mute

(2005)


Saint-Preux

To Be or Not (1981)


Punch Brothers

The Phosphorescent Blues (2015)


Buñuel's Andalusian dog












Luis Buñuel

Un Chien Andalou (1929)

Mr. Oizo

Lambs Anger (2008)


El Greco's Knight












El Greco

The Knight with His Hand on His Breast (1590)

Vangelis

El Greco (1998)


Giger's aliens













H.R. Giger

Alien (1979)

Shiver

Walpurgis (1969)














Island

Pictures (1977)

Danzig

III: How the Gods Kill (1992)

Emerson Lake and Palmer

Then and Now (1998)


Munch's scream












Edvard Munch

The Scream (1893)

Morgen

Morgen (1969)