Album covers inspired by famous works of art.

Yeah, ok, maybe. Bowie was influenced by a lot of artists and I'm stating the obvious here, that Egon Schiele had a MASSIVE IMPACT on 20th century pop culture.

 

from J.J. Grandville's (aka Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard) "Un Autre Monde" (1844)

 

The Triumph of Death

 

The US cover of Armed Forces looks Jackson Pollock influenced.

 

This is a great thread! The cover of Bruce Cockburn's 1973 album "Night Vision"
is based on the 1954 painting "Horse and Train" by Alex Colville.

 

Uriah Heep's Conquest release is obviously the flag raising at Iwo Jima. Also wondered where the artwork from Whitesnake's Saints and Sinner may have originated.

 

The cover of Elton's Blue Moves was a painting, not sure if it's a famous one or not.

 

Oh, I can do better than that!

 

You called?

 

It was a color cartoon that Roger Glover saw in the New Yorker, and thought it was an interesting idea to develop. The cover drawing is by Tom Swick.

 

The White Stripes' De Stijl.

This artwork is closer to Theo van Doesburg IMO, an unknown band for me, what you recommend?

 

Stuart Price and Les Rythmes Digitales.

 

Nonsuch Palace in Surrey, built by Henry VIII.

 

Here's one I like a lot from the mid 90s by Rachel's, Music for Egon Schiele, which was composed as the score for a theatrical production, but is an amazing record on its own ... not sure if the cover art is by Schiele, or inspired by ...

 

The painting is "The Seer" by Giorgio de Chirico.

 

The Uffington White Horse is a monumental prehistoric figure, 110m long.

 

It's an original Schiele: Autumn Trees (1911)

 

"The artwork on the album's cover is Kambara yoru no yuki ("Night snow at Kambara"), print number 16 in Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hiroshige's popular 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō series"

 

The lack of depth cues to create disorienting visual effects.

Piet Mondrian -- Evening Red Tree, 1908.

 

What do you think of this for the Floyd cover?

Illustration by G.A. Harker:

 

also reminded me a little of this one

 

There was also a CD version as well.

 

Santana's "Abraxis" album cover is the Mati Klarwein painting "Annunciation".