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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Michelangelo The Creation of Adam (detail) (1508-12) |
Prince Lovesexy (1988) |
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Stanley Kubrick Jack Nicholson in The Shining (1980) |
Mr. Bungle Goddammit, I Love America ! (EP) (1988) |
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Stanley Kubrick Jack Nicholson in The Shining (1980) |
Redd Kross & Melvins New Year's Eve Ballroom Blitz (EP) (2012) |
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Jean-Michel Basquiat Untitled Oil Drawing on Paper (unknown) |
Rammellzee vs. K-Rob Beat Bop (single) (1983) |
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Jean-Baptiste Gautier-Dagoty Marie-Antoinette en grand habit de cour (1775) |
Pi Corp Let Them Eat Pi (Musik Spontano Electrik) (2010) |
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Egon Schiele Selbstdarstellung mit rotem Hemd (1913) |
Erik Friedlander's Chimera The Watchman (1996) |
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Salvador Dali La Persistence de la Mémoire (1931) |
Various Rubber Folk: a Folk Tribute to the Beatles (2006) |
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Anish Kapoor Mother as Mountain (1985) |
Vijay Iyer Trio Accelerando (2012) |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti The Couch (1870) |
Henry Treffry Dunn Jane Morris (1896-98) |
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David Bowie The Man Who Sold the World (1971) |
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Filips Blues by Night (1987) |
The Needles Need some Action (1988) |
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Susan Logoreci Silverlake Revisited (2004) |
Lloyd Cole Antidepressant (2006) |
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Arnold Böcklin Pan Whistling at a Blackbird (1863) |
Aurélien Merle Remerle (2015) |
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Helmut Newton Here They Come II (from the Big Nudes series) (1981) |
Scorpions Love at First Sting (US) (1984) |
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Roy Lichtenstein Whaam ! (1963) |
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The Weathermen Bang Bang ! (1989) |
Various Powerdance ! (back cover) (1990) |
UK Subs Yellow Leader (2015) |
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Various Powerdance ! (1990) |
Various Burning Sounds: 20 Killer Power Pop Cuts (2007) |
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Pablo Picasso Nous Autres Musiciens (1921) |
Daddy Longlegs The Three Musicians (1972) |
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Gustave Doré Merlin l'Enchanteur et la Fée Viviane (1868) |
Burzum The Ways of Yore (2014) |
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Grant Wood American Gothic (1930) |
Dissension We the Fooled (1988) |
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Chuck Palahniuk Expedition (2015) |
Neil Young + Promise of the Real The Monsanto Years (2015) |
Various Better Off Zed (Soundtrack) (2018) |
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René Magritte Les Mémoires d'un Saint (1960) |
Gladys Knight and the Pips Visions (1983) |
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Jean Cocteau Jean Marais in Orphée (1949) |
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The Smiths This Charming Man (1983) |
Cyndi Lauper True Colors (1986) |
Klimek Music to Fall Asleep (2006) |
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Sir Thomas Tresham Rushton Triangular Lodge (1593-97) |
Temples Sun Structures (2014) |