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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Warhol's Marylin












Andy Warhol

Marylin (1967)

Madonna

Celebration (2009)


Ghenie's pie fight












Adrian Ghenie

Pie Fight Study 2 (2008)

Get Well Soon

Vexations (2010)


Escher's neverending stairs














M.C. Escher

Ascending/Descending

(1960)

Scaffold

LP (1969)

Bauhaus

Stairway to Escher (1974)


Caravaggio's saint Matthew












Caravaggio

The Inspiration of Saint Matthew (1602)

E.S. Posthumus

Unearthed (2001)


Sherman's self portraits
























Cindy Sherman

Untitled

(2000)

Cindy Sherman

Untitled

(2000)

Tori Amos

Strange Little Girls (alternate covers) (2001)

Cindy Sherman

Untitled

(2000)

Cindy Sherman

Untitled

(2000)

Tori Amos

American Doll Posse (2007)


Kirby's Silver Surfer












Jack Kirby / Stan Lee

Fantastic Four - The stratling Saga of the Silver Surfer (1966)

Joe Satriani

Surfing with the Alien (1987)


Borglum's Mount Rushmore











Gutzon Borglum

Mount Rushmore (1927-41)

Deep Purple

In Rock (1970)










Bette Midler

In Divine Madness (1980)

Various

Country Legends -

24 Country Greats (1980)










D.O.A.

Bloodied but Unbowed -

The Damage to Date 1978-83 (1983)

The Temptations

Awesome (2001)











Vive La Fête!

Child In Time Split EP (2006)

Above and Beyond

Anjunabeats Vol.5 (2007)


Arcimboldo's Flora












Giuseppe Arcimboldo

Flora (1591)

The Clientele

Bonfires on the Heath (2009)


Truffaut's Bride Wore Black












François Truffaut

Jeanne Moreau in La Mariée était en Noir (1968)

Black Tambourine

Complete Recordings (1999)


Lassnig's pointing guns












Maria Lassnig

You or Me (2005)

Sophie Hunger

1983 (2010)


Miró's blue












Joan Miró

Bleu I (1962)

The Durutti Column

The Return of the Sporadic Recordings (2002)


Botticelli's Venus









Sandro Botticelli

The Birth of Venus (1485)













Aphrodite's Child

Rain and Tears (1968)

Judi Pulver

Pulver Rising (1973)

Grateful Dead

Best of/Skeletons from the Closet (1974)













Sierra Swan

Ladyland (2006)

Fortuna

Less is More EP (2009)

Jazz Sabbath

Venus in Transit (2017)


Mondrian's primary colours

Piet Mondrian

Composition with Yellow, Blue and Red

(1937-42)

The Apples in Stereo

Tone Soul Evolution (1997)

Silverchair

Young Modern (2007)

Adams' sand dunes












Ansel Adams

Sand Dunes, Sunrise Death Valley (1948)

Eagles

Long Road Out of Eden (2007)


Greaves' anarchitecture












Richard Greaves

Untitled (photo: Mario del Curto) (1989- )

Erik Truffaz

Arkhangelsk (2007)


Watteau's foursome












Jean-Antoine Watteau

La Partie Quarrée (1713)

Various

Chill-Out Istanbul (2007)


Tardi's view of Paris

























Jacques Tardi

Les Aventures Extraordinaires

d'Adèle Blanc-Sec

T.1: Adèle et la Bête (1976)

Dominique Grange

Hammam Palace (1981)

Bill Deraime

Fauteuil Piégé (1983)

Bernard Lavilliers

Tout Est Permis, Rien n'Est Possible (1984)

Pigalle

Regards Affligés (1990)

Dominique Grange

L'Utopie Toujours... (2005)