02/25/2008
VISUAL NOTES: Album Covers Inspired by Famous Paintings
Currently in storage at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
If you are a band planning to release an album, and you're lacking in visual artist friends...look no further than the closest art museum!
I spotted a photo of a Bow Wow Wow album cover in an new edition of The Oxford History of Western Art that was an "interpretation" of Manet's "Picnic on the Grass", and committed this ridiculous and awesome idea to memory.
CHALLENGE: Scour The Internet for apparent match-ups between famous dead painters and rock stars.
THE RESULTS:
Théodore Géricault - Raft of the Medusa, 1819
The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy & The Lash (1985, WEA Records)
Edouard Manet - Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe, 1863
Bow Wow Wow - See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang, Yeah, City All Over! Go Ape Crazy! (1981, RCA)
Robert Rauschenberg - White Painting, 1951
The Beatles - The White Album (1968, Apple Records)
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