music artwork

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/

Post #100

Here we are, post #100. This weblog features more than 70 different visual artists from the 16th century to the present time and contains about 150 album covers up to now. Beside making new additions, I am also thinking of a new project. I'll keep you posted.

Thanks to all the people who stopped by and especially to those who sent me a message, made suggestions or shared links. I really appreciate.


Peter Davies The Hot One Hundred (1997)	Radiohead Hail to the Thief (2003)

Van Doesburg's composition


Theo Van Doesburg Composition VII (The Three Graces) (1917)	The White Stripes De Stijl (2000)

Mapplethorpe's Lisa Lyon photo shoots


Robert Mapplethorpe Lisa Lyon (1981)	Scissor Sisters Fire with Fire (2010)


Robert Mapplethorpe Lisa Lyon (1982)	Scissor Sisters Any Which Way (2010)

Millais' Ophelia

John Everett Millais

Ophelia (1851-52)


Pearls Before Swine ...Beautiful Lies You Could Live in (1971)	Hekate Goddess (2004)	Cardinal Omut (2018)

Magritte's blank check


René Magritte Le Blanc-Seing (1965)	Styx The Grand Illusion (1977)	Oregon Out of the Woods (1978)

Lichtenstein's pistol


Roy Lichtenstein Pistol (1968)	Ride Tarantula (1996)	Oddjob Clint (2010)

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)