Album covers inspired by famous works of art.

Don't think anyone's mentioned this: another Magritte, 'Not To Be Reproduced', inspiration for Roger Daltrey's 'One Of The Boys' and also (less directly) that wonderful cover for Black Sabbath's 'Sabotage'.

 

How do people even come up with stuff like that? If I stare at a single one, the whole thing will slow down or stop.

 

With its winding rivers and similar colour scheme this Bosch painting (Garden of delight) reminded me a little of the Allman's Eat a peach , slightly different kinds of delight though

 

El Lissitzky, Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge, 1920

 

Alexander Rodchenko, One-Sixth Part of the World, 1923.

 

Actually an ad for cigarette papers: Alphonse Mucha - JOB (1898)



and another one: Alphonse Mucha - Zodiac (1896)

 

Yayoi Kusama -- Infinity Dots, 2001.

 

The family grave of François-Vincent Raspail at Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, one of the city's most visited tourist attractions (Jim Morrison is buried here).

 

Artwork taken from Lawrence Ferlinghetti - Unfinished Flag of the United States (1994)

 

Jean-Michel Basquiat, King Alphonso, 1983.



Rammellzee, Beat Bop, 1983 --- A cover designed by Basquiat.

 

Illustration Arachne (1861) by Gustave Doré for Dante's Inferno.

 

Who's the artist?

 

The Cat Empire inspired by Basquiat

 

Man, The Sisters of Mercy had good taste in art(work)!
Once again, from Gustave Doré's illustrations: Inferno, Canto 32

 

Looks like the Basquiat's logo... and haircut... but a crown without a king IMO.

 

Unfortunately this EP was never released on CD.

 

Edgar Degas - Danseuses bleues (1890), 85 × 75,5 cm, Musée d'Orsay, Paris

 

No "influence" whatsoever. Just a straight rip-off from

 

I stick with Gustave Doré. From his illustrations to The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1876), Plate 14: "The Game is Done"

 

Samuel Palmer "Sheperds under a Full Moon" (1830)

 

Did The Beatles ever say that? I always assumed that the idea came from Yoko's exhibitions in 66/67 where everything was painted white:


1966


1967

 

No, they didn't. The post was kind of a joke replying to Malewitsch's "Black Square".
It was more about the visual appearance of an artwork, hence the reference to the master of white monochrome paintings Robert Ryman.