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/

Magritte's memoirs of a saint


René Magritte Les Mémoires d'un Saint (1960)	Gladys Knight and the Pips Visions (1983)

Cocteau's Orphée

Jean Cocteau

Jean Marais in Orphée (1949)


The Smiths This Charming Man (1983)	Cyndi Lauper True Colors (1986)	Klimek Music to Fall Asleep (2006)

Tresham's triangular lodge


Sir Thomas Tresham Rushton Triangular Lodge (1593-97)	Temples Sun Structures (2014)

Rothko's colour field


Mark Rothko Red over Dark Blue on Dark Grey (1961)	Morton Feldman Rothko Chapel / Why Patterns ? (1991)

Bismuth and Brüggemann's shallow


Pierre Bismuth / Stefan Brüggemann Shallow (2008)	Lupe Fiasco Lasers (2011)

Eggleston's confederate flag


William Eggleston Untitled Neon Confederate Flag (1980)	Primal Scream Give out but Don't Give up (1994)

David's death of Socrates


Jacques-Louis David La Mort de Socrate (1787)	Undogmatic Undogmatism (2013)

Shelton's Freak Brothers

Gilbert Shelton

Further Adventures of those Fabulous Furry

Freak Brothers (1972)

Grateful Dead

Shakedown Street (1975)

Mondrian's primary colours (2)


Piet Mondrian Tableau II (1921)	Hose Hose EP (1983)

Gauguin's two Tahitian women


Paul Gauguin Deux Tahitiennes aux Fleurs de Mangue (1899)	Michael Franks Objects of Desire (1982)

Signac's Démolisseur


Paul Signac Le Démolisseur (1897-99)	The Great Artiste Big Sounds from the Big City Vol. 1 (2014)

Gaga's composite picture


Sandro Botticelli The Birth of Venus (1485)	Gian Lorenzo Bernini Daphne from Apollo and Daphne (1622-25)


Jeff Koons Woman in Tub (1988)	Jeff Koons Blue Ball (2013)

Lady Gaga

Artpop (2013)

Dennis Hopper's Easy Rider


Dennis Hopper Peter Fonda in Easy Rider (1969)	Various The Desert Sessions Vol. III/IV (2000)

Schlemmer's Bauhaus logo

Oskar Schlemmer

Staatliches Bauhaus - Weimar (1922)


Bauhaus Singles 1979-83 Volume One (1986)	Bauhaus Singles 1979-83 Volume Two (1986)


Bauhaus Best of (2005)	Bauhaus Live (2006)

Ingres' turkish bath


Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Le Bain Turc (1862)	Pete La Roca Turkish Women at the Bath (1967)	The Don Ellis Orchestra Electric Bath (1967)