Album covers inspired by famous works of art.

Inhuman Rearing: Viktor Safonkin

 

Good point.

Inspired by Elvis Presley's debut album

 

I think these were inspired by Klimt as well.

 

It's Raphael actually

 

I know that things like SGT Peppers sleeve can be considered works of art, but there is a thread for that kind of thing already, would be great if this thread could be kept to what it was intended I feel, before we get to Whipped Cream.

 

This one's my all-time favorite. All the cuts here are the deepest.

 

The Bauhaus-signet, the German art school, founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar, 1919.

 

First one I thought of.

 

Salvador Dali's Slave Market with the Disappearing Bust of Voltaire

Alice Cooper's DaDa

 

I've always been a big Brian Eno fan, and always been a fan of the album covers that use real art to their advantage, something I think Another Green World excels at even moreso that some of his other covers. This image has remained linked to the music in my mind, and conveys some of the gentle and serene nature of this record. A real departure for Eno at the time, and I think most of us missed the playful rockouts on the debut, and on Tiger Mountain. This could probably be pointed to as the ambient transition album, for better or worse, depending on which side of Eno you like best. And I do tend to like those crazy stream-of-consciousness-fueled guitar-driven spastic rockers the best, but in later years I've grown to love the pastoral feelings that his ambient music often evokes. In fact, On Land may be my most played Eno collection in the last decade, but this one would be right up there too.

As you can see, the cover art is a small section of the painting by his art teacher Tom Phillips, called After Raphael, itself an exercise based on the old Renaissance painting Umbrian School, c. 1490-1500. Votive Picture, attributed to the young Raphael, plotted out using a grid based on the "Golden Section" (or "golden ratio", you can still see the spiderweb of lines in the album cover image below).

 

Oops! At least they both start with "R"!

 

Poster changed his chosen images, invalidating my post.

I'll go looking for my own Rossetti-Bowie comparison, then!

 

Paul Gauguin Two Tahitian women


Renè Magritte Memories of a saint

 

don't know if it is an original art nouveau painting (another Klimt?) , if not it is clearly inspired by the movement


Alphonse Mucha: The Arts-Music

 

Van Halen - Fair Warning.

 

Botticelli The birth of Venus



I really like the Halfway Inn towel

 

do you know the artist?

 

William Kurelek’s The Maze.

 

The Damned Music for Pleasure


art by Barney Bubbles, inspired by Wassily Kandinsky

 

3x M.C. Escher

 

Van Gogh The starry night



cover back of Cyndi Lauper's She's so unusual

 

La charmeuse de Serpents is also the cover for this:

 

very impressionistic!

 

For the longest time I thought this was Van Gogh. Doesn't make any sense, but that's what I thought.