Album Covers Featuring Famous Works of Art (or obvious parodies of same)

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http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drg700/g738/g73809gvfdo.jpg http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drg100/g190/g19035n0jlc.jpg

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 06:58 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/ferguson/spinal-tap/IntravenusDeMilo.gif

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 07:19 (eighteen years ago) link

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B0006957S0.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 10:37 (eighteen years ago) link

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/stranglers/images/pochettes/alb_vinyl/thegospel_ins.jpg

Gatefold of the Gospel According to the Meninblack by the Stranglers....puts a Maninblack at the Last Supper (hard to see in this pic).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 10:38 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.bobeeles.mcmail.com/images/sisters/body.jpg

Sisters lifting from Francis Bacon.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 10:45 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.faust-pages.com/images/covers/riley.jpg

(doesn't scan well. also appears to be rotated 90')

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 11:04 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.jonimitchell.com/jonicoveroriginal.gif

― bham, Wednesday, 1 June 2005 11:33 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.stiftung-kuenstlerdorf.de/14_bow_wow_jungle.JPG

― b b, Wednesday, 1 June 2005 12:35 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.vangelismovements.com/RainAndTearsEPPB.jpg

― b b, Wednesday, 1 June 2005 12:39 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.nexusunderground.com/images/ride-tarantula.jpg

― b b, Wednesday, 1 June 2005 12:40 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.alicecooper.com/images/discography/thumbnails/l1983dada.jpg

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 13:37 (eighteen years ago) link

I wish I knew how to post images, because then I would get the chance to present for your enjoyment the cover of The Grand Illusion for the second time this week! (It's a modified version of Rene Magritte's The Blank Check; I guess this isn't a very famous work of art, but the artist is famous.

Also, the cover of Kansas's s/t debut is the mural (depicting John Brown) in the Kansas State Capitol at Topeka.

― Guayaquil, Wednesday, 1 June 2005 14:13 (eighteen years ago) link

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000003TAL.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

http://www.kompaktkiste.de/cd/_abc/_f/facd275.jpg

― Steve Gertz (sgertz), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 14:26 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.interpunk.com/itemimages2/23512.jpg

http://www.ismusic.ne.jp/idiot/4.jpg

http://modernrock.com/images/album2/1331.jpg

― Sparkle Motion's Rising Force, Wednesday, 1 June 2005 17:03 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.jpgr.co.uk/pcs7027_h.jpg

― Suzy Creemcheese (SuzyCreemcheese), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 17:12 (eighteen years ago) link

I, too, do not know how to drop in images, but . . .

Jackson Browne, Late For The Sky, is an obvious parody of Magritte's L'Empire de Lumiere. His Running On Empty is a slightly less obvious parody of hundreds of Hudson School luminist landscapes.

― Vornado, Wednesday, 1 June 2005 18:08 (eighteen years ago) link

To post images, just cut & paste the image's URL address (begins with http://, usually ends with .jpg) preceded by the letter "i". So you just post "http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf700/f701/f70150ly719.jpg" as a message (minus the quotation marks, of course) and you should get your picture:

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf700/f701/f70150ly719.jpg

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 18:16 (eighteen years ago) link

(Good Lord, what a disastrous mess! Forget I said anything.)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 18:21 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.progreviews.com/reviews/images/Styx-tGI.jpg

― Guayaquil, Wednesday, 1 June 2005 18:23 (eighteen years ago) link

I have the power!!!! Thanks, Myonga.

― Guayaquil, Wednesday, 1 June 2005 18:23 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/arts/2004/01/22/saville_cover_power_20.jpg

― william, it was really nothing (superpopelectro), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 18:26 (eighteen years ago) link

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002L8C.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Jimmy Mod Is Great At Getting Us Into Trouble (ModJ), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 18:39 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.thestoneroses.co.uk/discography/singles/images/cdelephant.jpg http://www.thestoneroses.co.uk/discography/singles/images/cdmadeofs.jpg http://www.thestoneroses.co.uk/discography/singles/images/cdshebangs.jpg http://www.thestoneroses.co.uk/discography/singles/images/iwannabeadored.jpg

― john'n'chicago, Wednesday, 1 June 2005 19:34 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.rainmakers.com/images/rdcd2.gif

― billy budapest, Wednesday, 1 June 2005 20:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Would it be too much to ask that people identify the Famous Works of Art (or obvious parodies of same) depicted in the album?

Here's one:
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000060PE.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
photograph by Rodchenko

― 666 (Robust Cookies), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 20:23 (eighteen years ago) link

Nah, that's Mary off Big Brother.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 2 June 2005 07:29 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.memorybankinc.com/moody/010.gif http://www.rockzirkus.de/lexikon/bilder/d/deep/deeppur.jpg
Two small detailed squares from two MUCH-larger paintings, something-or-other by Maxfield Parrish, and Hieronymous Bosch's "Garden Of Earthly Delights", left to right.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 2 June 2005 08:44 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.perrific.com/cds/covers/crash.jpg

http://hem.passagen.se/zigdust/album2.jpg http://images.windowsmedia.com/img/prov_s/300_80/00000000000000000841-800x800_72dpi_RGB.jpg

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 2 June 2005 11:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Wait, how is Goo by Sonic Youth a parody or a famous work of art? It's Raymond Pettibon, but he did it by request. It's an original design for the sleeve.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 2 June 2005 13:07 (eighteen years ago) link

koogs, thats a faust tapes cover, right? i never thought of how similar it looks to unknown pleasures...

― peter smith (plsmith), Thursday, 2 June 2005 13:10 (eighteen years ago) link

The images I posted upthread are:
(1) "Kerze" by Gerhard Richter (on Daydream Nation sleeve) - This painting was at one time featured at the Chicago Institute of Arts museum. I'm not sure if it's part of their permanent collection or not)
(2) "Manneken Pis" ("pissing boy") by Jerôme Duquesnoy (on Technique sleeve) - A statue in Brussels with an interesting story that can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manneken_Pis

― Steve Gertz (sgertz), Thursday, 2 June 2005 17:04 (eighteen years ago) link

"The Rainmakers" (who were from Kansas City) features the work of the great American artist Thomas Hart Benton - also from KC, MO.

― Billy Budapest, Friday, 3 June 2005 14:58 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.superseventies.com/ac18breakfastinamerica.gif

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Friday, 3 June 2005 15:17 (eighteen years ago) link

> koogs, thats a faust tapes cover, right?

yep, picture is Brigit Riley's "Crest". i've a feeling i heard something about them using it without permission - later versions have a different sleeve. better picture here: http://home.psu.ac.th/~punya.t/20th%20en/Crest.html

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 3 June 2005 15:49 (eighteen years ago) link

What work of art does Breakfast in America parody?

Ohhh, the Statue of Liberty.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 3 June 2005 16:10 (eighteen years ago) link

http://fiw.web.infoseek.co.jp/sanctuary/pic/cyndi2.jpg
Back cover of Cyndi Lauper's She's So Unusual, with portions of Van Gogh's "The Starry Night" on the soles of her shoes!

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 3 June 2005 16:15 (eighteen years ago) link

http://krug.org/unit/spinal/intraven.jpg

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 3 June 2005 16:35 (eighteen years ago) link

two years pass...

obvious parody?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/37/WhistlersMother.jpeg/300px-WhistlersMother.jpeg http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/41iTF3azTeL._AA240_.jpg

― stephen, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 21:57 (sixteen years ago) link

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