Album covers inspired by famous works of art.

Lot of art in this thread that would be a real stretch to describe as "famous"

Still, pretty interesting so not meant as a criticism.

 

Cover painting: The Ghost of a Flea (1820) by William Blake.

 

More Blake

 

Beach Boys' "Surf's Up"



The artwork of Surf's Up is based on the sculpture "End of the Trail" by James Earle Fraser.

 

Pearls Before Swine used this illustration on an album cover circa 1970, and prior to that they were the first band to use Bosch on an album cover.

 

The cover of Elton John's album Blue Moves . . .



. . . is derived from Patrick Procktor's The Guardian Readers:

 

????? PLease explain ,which album, artist , reference ?????

 

... LOL.

 

Another Magritte:

 

Magritte?

 

Herve Morvan:

 

Yes, as I noted. Not surprisingly, Magritte's original is entitled "Le Principe du Plaisir".

 

Francis Bacon Head VI (1949):

 

Influenced by Roy Lichtenstein.

 

Auguste Rodin The Kiss (1901-04)

 

Eugen Batz, The Spatial Effect of Colours and Shapes, exercise from Wassily Kandinsky's class, 1929

 

"Candle"... a painting by Gerhard Richter, 1983.

 

Fleetwood Mac's Say You Will inspired by Double Suicide film....

 

There are Hugo van der Goes "Sündenfall" (ca. 1470), Jan van Eick "The Arnolfini Marriage" (1434) and a lot of Hieronymus Bosch, maybe some Pieter Bruegel the Elder (I think the guy with the bagpipe).



[Edit: Yes, I've found the guy: Pieter Bruegel the Elder "The Peasant Dance" (1568)]

 

The relation between music and other art forms it's a partnership. An album cover can promote a plastic artist and a plastic artist can promote musicians.
This black-and-white photo received widespread attention when Eva von Zeppelin threatened the band before a gig. The perfect cover for the album with a perverse effect.

 

Jacques-Louis David "The Death of Marat" (1793)

 

Jethro Tull - Minstrel In the Gallery
http://jethrotull.proboards.com/post/38382/thread
Minstrel's gallery from Haddon Hall which formed part of " Twelfth Night Revels in the Great Hall, Haddon Hall" by Joseph Nash which was used as the basis for the cover of MITG.



http://www.allposters.co.uk/-sp/Twe...4_1422719193_717eea176ad2f9b3f7914c13134a1cf7
Twelfth Night Revels in the Great Hall, Haddon Hall, Architecture of the Middle Ages, 1838
By: Joseph Nash

 

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