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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William Eggleston Untitled Neon Confederate Flag (1980) |
Primal Scream Give out but Don't Give up (1994) |
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Jacques-Louis David La Mort de Socrate (1787) |
Undogmatic Undogmatism (2013) |
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Gilbert Shelton Further Adventures of those Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers (1972) |
Grateful Dead Shakedown Street (1975) |
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Piet Mondrian Tableau II (1921) |
Hose Hose EP (1983) |
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Paul Gauguin Deux Tahitiennes aux Fleurs de Mangue (1899) |
Michael Franks Objects of Desire (1982) |
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Paul Signac Le Démolisseur (1897-99) |
The Great Artiste Big Sounds from the Big City Vol. 1 (2014) |
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Sandro Botticelli The Birth of Venus (1485) |
Gian Lorenzo Bernini Daphne from Apollo and Daphne (1622-25) |
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Jeff Koons Woman in Tub (1988) |
Jeff Koons Blue Ball (2013) |
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Lady Gaga Artpop (2013) |
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Dennis Hopper Peter Fonda in Easy Rider (1969) |
Various The Desert Sessions Vol. III/IV (2000) |
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Oskar Schlemmer Staatliches Bauhaus - Weimar (1922) |
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Bauhaus Singles 1979-83 Volume One (1986) |
Bauhaus Singles 1979-83 Volume Two (1986) |
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Bauhaus Best of (2005) |
Bauhaus Live (2006) |
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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Le Bain Turc (1862) |
Pete La Roca Turkish Women at the Bath (1967) |
The Don Ellis Orchestra Electric Bath (1967) |
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Federico Fellini E la Nave Va (1983) |
Various Son of Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs and Chanteys (2013) |
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Henri Matisse La Chute d'Icare (1943) |
Wynton Marsalis The Majesty of the Blues (1989) |
Buvette The Sun Disappeared EP (2014) |
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M.C. Escher Sky and Water I (1938) |
Michael Brecker Now You See it... (Now You Don't) (1990) |
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William Blake The Ghost of a Flea (1819-20) |
Gilgamesh Another Fine Tune You've Got Me Into (1978) |
Bruce Dickinson The Chemical Wedding (1998) |
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Evelyne Axell Ice Cream (1963) |
Lucius Wilde Woman (2013) |
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H.R. Giger Landscape XIX (1973) |
Emerson, Lake & Palmer Brain Salad Surgery (1973) |
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Jason Decaires Taylor The Lost Correspondent (2001-06) |
Eddie Vedder Ukulele Songs (2011) |
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Katsushika Hokusai The (Great) Wave (off Kanagawa) (1829-32) |
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Cal Tjader Breeze from the East (1963) |
Jade Warrior Waves (1975) |
Australian Crawl The Final Wave (1986) |
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Neil Halstead Sleeping on Roads (2002) |
Indigo Girls Poseidon and the Bitter Bug (2009) |
Cavalcades Awaken Quite Alone EP (2010) |
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Alien Soap Opera Second Wave (1999) |
John Mayer As/Is (2004) |
Children Of Ishizuke Tree Entering the Ocean (2009) |
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Aidan Baker The Sea Swells a bit (2006) |
Svarta Stugan Main Theme (2012) |
Courtney Barnett The Double EP - A Sea of Split Peas (2014) |
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Athlete Vehicles and Animals (2004) |