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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Richard Prince Nurse in Hollywood 4 (2004) |
Sonic Youth Sonic Nurse (2004) |
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Vincent Van Gogh Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear (1889) |
Joni Mitchell Turbulent Indigo (1994) |
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Toni Frissell Weeki Wachee Spring (1947) |
Bill Evans & Jim Hall Undercurrent (1962) |
This Ascension Tears in Rain (1989) |
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Merch This Betrayal Will Be Our End (2012) |
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Charles & Ray Eames Solar-Powered Do Nothing Machine (1957) |
Billy Mure Supersonic Guitars Vol.2 (1960) |
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Edward Hopper Night Hawks (1942) |
Eggs Over Easy Good 'n' Cheap (1974) |
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The Nighthawks Open All Nite (1976) |
Mikael Wiehe Basin Street Blues (1994) |
Thomas Bacon/Philip Moll Nighhawks-Music of Alec Wilder (1995) |
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Peter Paul Rubens Crucifixion (1606-10) |
Die Toten Hosen Alles Wird Gut (1990) |
David LynchJack Nance in Eraserhead (1977) |
No CommentCommon Senseless (1989) |
M.C. EscherEncounter (1944) |
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Unknown Twin Arrows Trading Post, Flagstaff, AZ (Unknown) |
Blue States Man Mountain (2002) |
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Salvador Dali Enfant géopolitique observant la naissance de l'homme nouveau (1943) |
James Gang Newborn (1975) |
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Caspar David Friedrich Sea of Ice (1823) |
Abwärts Ich seh die Schiffe den Fluß herunterfahren (1990) |
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Islands Return to the Sea (2006) |
Hox Vox Eight-bit Deboned (2009) |
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H.R. Giger Debbie III (1981) |
Debbie Harry KooKoo (1981) |
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Charles Burns Skin Deep - Tales of Doomed Romance (1992) |
Iggy Pop Brick by Brick (1990) |
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Robert Smithson Amarillo Ramp (1973) |
Lee Ranaldo Amarillo Ramp (for Robert Smithson) (1997) |
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Leonardo Da Vinci La Dame à l'Hermine (Portrait de Cecilia Gallerani) (1490) |
Enigma The Platinum Collection (2010) |
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Keith Haring Untitled (1991) |
Various Jazz to the World (1995) |
Various World Christmas (1996) |
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Christian Marclay They Only Come Out at Night (1991) |
Mark Ronson & the Business Intl Record Collection (2010) |
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Alfred Hitchcock Cary Grant in North by Northwest (1959) |
Etienne Daho Singles (1998) |
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Jacques-Louis David La Mort de Marat (1793) |
Pearls Before Swine Constructive Melancholy - 30 Years of (1999) |
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Steve Goodman Say it in Private (1977) |
Cold Chisel East (1980) |
Akro L'Encre, la Sueur et le Sang (2006) |
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Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness (2008) |
Have a Nice Life Voids (2009) |
Andrew Bird My Finest Work Yet (2019) |