Album covers inspired by famous works of art.

The cover of a record is the first image you associate with the music inside, the artwork is a crucial part of the overall aesthetic of the product, a question of advertising.
The importance of cover design was such that some artists specialised or gained fame through their work but my aim here is allusions, imitations and even rip-off of famous works of art, anything is welcome... paintings, sculpture, movies, photos.

Inspired by Jackson Pollock, the cover displays a work by John Squire.

 

Crash Test Dummies - God Shuffled His Feat (Titian)
Jeff Beck Group - Beck-Ola (Magritte)

 

Bow Wow Wow's "See Jungle!..."



...was inspired by Le déjeuner sur l'herbe by Édouard Manet:

 

Speaking of Magritte...

 

Renoir - "Bal du moulin de la Galette"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bal_du_moulin_de_la_Galette

 

I also detect an influence of Ad Reinhardt and Robert Rauschenberg in the cover of "Smell the Glove."

 

The art is not all that famous but The Pogues Rum Sodomy & the Lash cover artwork is based on a painting by Jean-Louis-André-Théodore Géricault The Raft of the Medusa (1819)

 

Off topic but the limited edition LP version was designed by Robert Rauschenberg.

 

And this cover references...?

 

http://www.nevermindthebuspass.com/...album-covers-late-for-the-sky-jackson-browne/

 

Do rear covers count? If so, then the reverse of David Ackles' American Gothic (no prizes for guessing what it references). The only jpg I could find would overwhelm the page so here's a link...

https://songsfromsodeep.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/american-gothic.jpg

 

Mark Knopfler's Kill to Get Crimson uses Four Lambrettas and Three Portraits of Janet Churchman by John Bratby from 1958





The back of the gatefold completes the image.

 

Shout-out...Bob Seidemann!

 

Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion inspired by Raphael's fresco "School of Athens"

 

The Deep Purple Stormbringer cover art (as well as Siouxie & the Banshees' Tinderbox) was based on one of the most famous photos in the history of storm chasing.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitruvian_Man

 

Am I going to get in trouble for posting that?

 

Because the original Beatles cover IS a work of art, I give you....



Granted, it got relegated to the gatefold, but it was intended as the cover....

 

The cover of Deep Purple '69 ("April") album actually is a segmented illustration from Hieronymus Bosch's painting "The Garden of Earthly Delights". The original painting is in color but picture on the cover is in monochrome due a printing error to the original layout, and the band opted to keep it this way.