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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Magritte's castle in the Pyrenees












René Magritte

Le Château des Pyrénées (1959)

Mike Oldfield

Tubular Bells (1973)


Marclay's tape fall












Christian Marclay

Tape Fall (1989)

Joan La Barbara

Tapesongs (1977)


Bruegel's death triumph









Pieter Bruegel (the Elder)

Le Triomphe de la Mort (1562)











Pearls Before Swine

Balaklava (1968)

Black Sabbath

Greatest Hits (1977)


Dali's butterflies














Salvador Dali

Paysage aux Papillons (1956)

Jackie Gleason

Lonesome Echo (1955)

AMK

The Lonesome Echo (2009)


Irving Penn's corner portraits












Irving Penn

Marcel Duchamp (1948)

Lloyd Cole

Bad Vibes (1993)


Rousseau's snake charmer













Henri Rousseau

La Charmeuse de Serpents (1907)

Laurent Thibault

Mais on ne Peut pas Rêver tout le Temps

(1979)

Fleetwood Mac

Tango in the Night (1987)


Leonardo's Mona Lisa














Leonardo Da Vinci

Mona Lisa - La Gioconda (1503-06)

Catherine Ribeiro+Alpes

Le Temps de l'Autre (1977)

Cher

Dovè l'Amore (EP) (1999)












Umberto Tozzi

È nell'aria...ti amo (1977)

Various

We Do 'em Our Way (1980)












Suicidal Tendencies

The Art of Rebellion (1992)

Les Rolling Bidochons

Made in Japan (2006)

Nominon/Exorcism

Morbid Tunes Of Death (2011)












The Art of Noise

Reworks (1986)

1000 Mona Lisas

New Disease

(1995)

European Jazz Trio (with Strings)

Mona Lisa (2011)












X-Tra

Mona Lisa (EP)

(1985)

Tangerine Dream

Mona Da Vinci

(2011)

Prince Rama

Xtreme Now (2016)

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)