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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| Piet Mondrian Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow (1930) |
Internationales Geräuschorchester / Karnataka College Of Percussion Tone Soul Evolution (1985) |
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Bert Stern Marilyn Monroe - Crucifix III (from The Last Sitting) (1962) |
Lloyd Cole Lloyd Cole (also known as X) (1990) |
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Ferdinand Cheval, dit le Facteur Cheval Palais Idéal (1879-1912) |
Magik Markers Balf Quarry (2009) |
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René Magritte L'Heureux Donateur (1966) |
Spooky Tooth The Mirror (1974) |
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Malcolm Browne Burning Monk (1963) |
Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine (1992) |
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Salvador Dali Marché d'Esclaves(avec apparition du buste invisible de Voltaire) (1940) |
Alice Cooper DaDa (1983) |
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Lord Frederick Leighton Flaming June (1895) |
Malcolm McLaren And The Bootzilla Orchestra Waltz Darling (1989) |
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Egon Schiele Autumn Trees (1911) |
Rachel's Music for Egon Schiele (1996) |
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H.R. Giger Satan I (1973) |
Celtic Frost To Mega Therion (1985) |
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James Whale Bride of Frankenstein (1935) |
Heins Hoffman-Richter Music To Freak Your Friends And Break Your Lease (1974) |
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Leonardo Da Vinci Canon study from Codex Atlanticus (1478-1518) |
Family Anyway (1970) |
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Julian Schnabel Girl with no Eyes (2001) |
Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way (2002) |
Red Hot Chili Peppers Universally Speaking EP (2003) |
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John Divola Zuma #41 (1977) |
Lloyd Cole Love Story (1995) |
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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) |
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Caravaggio Medusa (1598) |
Salim Ghazi Saeedi namoWoman (2012) |
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Joseph L. Mankiewicz Liz Taylor in Cleopatra (1963) |
Paul Horn Impressions of Cleopatra (1963) |
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Allen Jones Chair (1969) |
Vive La Fête! Attaque Populaire (2003) |
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M.C. Escher Bond of Union (1956) |
Ian Hunter Ian Hunter (1975) |
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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) |
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Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack King Kong (1933) |
David Bromberg Wanted Dead or Alive (1974) |
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Fonk / Filips A la Recherche de l'Ultimate Mix (1986) |
Defunkt See Through EP (1993) |
Defunkt Cum Funky (1994) |
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William Kurelek The Maze (1953) |
Van Halen Fair Warning (1981) |
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Hieronymus Bosch The Last Judgement (triptych) (1482) |
John Zorn The Painted Bird (2016) |
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Pablo Picasso Massacre en Corée (1951) |
Freddie Hubbard & İlhan Mİmaroğlu Sing Me a Song of Songmy (A Fantasy for Electromagnetic Tape) (1971) |