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".
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Whale's Bride of Frankenstein (2)


James Whale Bride of Frankenstein (1935)	Heins Hoffman-Richter Music To Freak Your Friends And Break Your Lease (1974)

Leonardo's Codex Atlanticus


Leonardo Da Vinci Canon study from Codex Atlanticus (1478-1518)	Family Anyway (1970)

Schnabel's girl with no eyes


Julian Schnabel Girl with no Eyes (2001)	Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way (2002)	Red Hot Chili Peppers Universally Speaking EP (2003)

Divola's trashed room


John Divola Zuma #41 (1977)	Lloyd Cole Love Story (1995)

Paernio's mausoleum


Demetrio Paernio Appiani Family Tomb, Staglieno Cemetery, Genova (1910)	Joy Division Closer (1980)	Peter Hook and The Light Closer Tour 2011, Live in Manchester (2017)

Caravaggio's Medusa


Caravaggio Medusa (1598)	Salim Ghazi Saeedi namoWoman (2012)

Mankiewicz's Cleopatra


Joseph L. Mankiewicz Liz Taylor in Cleopatra (1963)	Paul Horn Impressions of Cleopatra (1963)

Jones' chair


Allen Jones Chair (1969)	Vive La Fête! Attaque Populaire (2003)

Escher's spiral ribbon heads


M.C. Escher Bond of Union (1956)	Ian Hunter Ian Hunter (1975)

Nash's Interiors

Joseph Nash

Twelfth Night Revels in the Great Hall, Haddon Hall Derbyshire

from The Mansions of England in Olden Times (1838)

David Bromberg

Wanted Dead or Alive (1974)

Cooper and Schoedsack's King Kong


Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack King Kong (1933)	David Bromberg Wanted Dead or Alive (1974)

Filips' funky mix


Fonk / Filips A la Recherche de l'Ultimate Mix (1986)	Defunkt See Through EP (1993)	Defunkt Cum Funky (1994)

Kurelek's Maze


William Kurelek The Maze (1953)	Van Halen Fair Warning (1981)

Bosch's Last Judgement


Hieronymus Bosch The Last Judgement (triptych) (1482)	John Zorn The Painted Bird (2016)

Picasso's Korean War


Pablo Picasso Massacre en Corée (1951)	Freddie Hubbard & İlhan Mİmaroğlu Sing Me a Song of Songmy (A Fantasy for Electromagnetic Tape) (1971)