Paintings on Pop Albums

Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,427MI6 Agent
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Aside from Coldplay's latest release and Fleet Foxes:

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... can anyone suggest any fairly famous pop albums that depict great works of art ie paintings?

I've googled it but don't come up with much! :(
"This is where we leave you Mr Bond."

Roger Moore 1927-2017

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  • Mister WhiteMister White The NetherlandsPosts: 814MI6 Agent
    The Velvet Underground and Nico.

    velvet-underground-and-nico.jpg

    Or isn't this considered fairly famous anymore?;)
    "Christ, I miss the Cold War."
  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,427MI6 Agent
    It's famous, mind you Warhol did a few didn't he? I was thinking less pop art...
    "This is where we leave you Mr Bond."

    Roger Moore 1927-2017
  • HardyboyHardyboy Posts: 5,901Chief of Staff
    Crash Test Dummies (remember them?--Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm!) used classical works on two of their CD covers. First, The Ghosts That Haunt Me:

    That's one of Gustav Dore's engravings for Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" showing Death and Life-in-Death gambling for the Mariner's soul. Then there'sGod Shuffled His Feet:

    That's Titian's paintingBacchus and Ariadne, with the band members' heads painted in.

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    Vox clamantis in deserto
  • AlexAlex The Eastern SeaboardPosts: 2,694MI6 Agent
    edited March 2009
    The first LP, (that's vinyl kids), I ever bought was Black Sabbath Greatest Hits. This was NOT an official album and was released without band-management involvement. (they even mispell Ozzy's last name on the back) I picked it up in a COOL AS HELL Record store in down-town Wiesbaden. Good times.

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    Which is a mirrored version of "The Triumph of Death" by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. (apology for size)

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  • Sir Hillary BraySir Hillary Bray College of ArmsPosts: 2,174MI6 Agent
    Van Halen's Fair Warning cover...
    Van_Halen_-_Fair_Warning.jpg

    ...is taken from "The Maze" by William Kurelek...
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    All in all, pretty sick stuff!
    Hilly...you old devil!
  • HardyboyHardyboy Posts: 5,901Chief of Staff
    I'm kind of embarrassed to admit I forgot this one. Here's the cover of Kansas's self-titled album from 1974:

    The John Brown image has become so iconic I think a lot of people believe it was originally done for the band; but it's actually from John Steuart Curry's mural in the Topeka State House,Tragic Prelude:

    tragic-prelude-20071.jpg
    Vox clamantis in deserto
  • Mister WhiteMister White The NetherlandsPosts: 814MI6 Agent
    Napoleon Plural wrote:
    It's famous, mind you Warhol did a few didn't he? I was thinking less pop art...

    Everyone's a critic...

    :D
    "Christ, I miss the Cold War."
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