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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Prince's nurse












Richard Prince

Nurse in Hollywood 4 (2004)

Sonic Youth

Sonic Nurse (2004)


Van Gogh's cut off ear












Vincent Van Gogh

Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear (1889)

Joni Mitchell

Turbulent Indigo (1994)


Frissel's drowned model














Toni Frissell

Weeki Wachee Spring (1947)

Bill Evans & Jim Hall

Undercurrent

(1962)

This Ascension

Tears in Rain (1989)












Merch

This Betrayal Will Be Our End

(2012)


Eames' solar machine














Charles & Ray Eames

Solar-Powered Do Nothing Machine (1957)

Billy Mure

Supersonic Guitars Vol.2 (1960)


Hopper's night hawks












Edward Hopper

Night Hawks (1942)

Eggs Over Easy

Good 'n' Cheap (1974)













The Nighthawks

Open All Nite (1976)

Mikael Wiehe

Basin Street Blues (1994)

Thomas Bacon/Philip Moll

Nighhawks-Music of Alec Wilder (1995)


Rubens' crucifixion












Peter Paul Rubens

Crucifixion (1606-10)

Die Toten Hosen

Alles Wird Gut (1990)


Escher meets Lynch









David Lynch

Jack Nance in Eraserhead

(1977)

No Comment

Common Senseless

(1989)

M.C. Escher

Encounter

(1944)



Twin Arrows












Unknown

Twin Arrows Trading Post,

Flagstaff, AZ (Unknown)

Blue States

Man Mountain (2002)


Dali's Geopoliticus child












Salvador Dali

Enfant géopolitique observant la naissance de l'homme nouveau

(1943)

James Gang

Newborn (1975)


Friedrich's Sea of Ice



















Caspar David Friedrich

Sea of Ice (1823)

Abwärts

Ich seh die Schiffe den Fluß herunterfahren

(1990)

Islands

Return to the Sea (2006)

Hox Vox

Eight-bit Deboned (2009)


Giger's Debbie












H.R. Giger

Debbie III (1981)

Debbie Harry

KooKoo (1981)


Burns' Skin Deep












Charles Burns

Skin Deep - Tales of Doomed Romance (1992)

Iggy Pop

Brick by Brick (1990)


Smithson's Amarillo Ramp












Robert Smithson

Amarillo Ramp (1973)

Lee Ranaldo

Amarillo Ramp (for Robert Smithson) (1997)


Leonardo's Portrait of a Lady with an Ermine












Leonardo Da Vinci

La Dame à l'Hermine (Portrait de Cecilia Gallerani) (1490)

Enigma

The Platinum Collection (2010)


Haring's World Party














Keith Haring

Untitled (1991)

Various

Jazz to the World (1995)

Various

World Christmas (1996)


Marclay's body mix series












Christian Marclay

They Only Come Out at Night (1991)

Mark Ronson & the Business Intl

Record Collection (2010)


Hitchcock's plane chase












Alfred Hitchcock

Cary Grant in North by Northwest (1959)

Etienne Daho

Singles (1998)


David's Marat












Jacques-Louis David

La Mort de Marat

(1793)

Pearls Before Swine

Constructive Melancholy - 30 Years of (1999)













Steve Goodman

Say it in Private

(1977)

Cold Chisel

East

(1980)

Akro

L'Encre, la Sueur et le Sang

(2006)













Have a Nice Life

Deathconsciousness

(2008)

Have a Nice Life

Voids

(2009)

Andrew Bird

My Finest Work Yet

(2019)