Music has always had a strong influence on people everywhere in the world and nothing points to this ever changing. There is an enormous amount of genres and sub genres, new hits and old classics, songs and compositions for everyone and this number is forever increasing. It is virtually impossible to listen to all songs ever written and hardly anyone would try to attempt that, yet each band and singer would want to have their music noticed. This is why album art is an essential part of any music CD, an eye catcher that can make a consumer purchase a piece of music that they might not even like.
Nowadays the graphics still exist, so do music shops, CD’s and CD covers but due to development of technology with each year more and more people buy music online. But let’s go back to pre internet times and look at CD covers of the late 60’s and 70’s – decades of the revolution of music and graphics, among other things.
The two pieces of album art that are going to be looked at are The Velvet Underground’s first record The Velvet Undergound and Nico cover made by Andy Warhol in 1967 and Pink Floyd’s album Atom Heart Mother by art design group Hipgnosis in 1970.
Nineteen sixties and seventies were the time of of psychedelia, music and images were either made under drug influence or in a way to resemble it. Psychedelic art typically had vivid colours, geometrical shapes and fractals used together to create an out of this world experience effect. Despite the time when both covers have been made and the type of music both bands played, the chosen pieces of album art are not typical to the era. But this is probably the greatest charm about them and certainly the main reason for being the subjects of this essay.
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...ent ground. the background is bright red and has large graphic circles of yellows, pinks, and blues. They seem to mimic the idea of a musical notes. It is composed of flat figural forms cut from vibrant paper. This was not the only album cover that Romare Bearden ever created. He also did another album cover for Wynton Marsalis called J Mood.
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The piece looks as if it were printed on to a canvas after the artist
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The piece of work that I have chosen from the Currier Museum of Art is title The Rehearsal. This piece is oil on canvas by Peter Milton. The Rehearsal is completed in 1984, which is the third part of his Les Belles Et La Bete (Beauty and the Beast) project. The first and second part was completed in 1977 and 1978 respectively. The Rehearsal is a piece that sets to explore sexuality through fantasy and metaphor where some architectural space, shadows and reflection are very real where others are examples of fantasy world.
...urative minimalism that he loved to use. These were also a poster for Precious released in 2009 which showed things from several of the posters Bass did, including Anatomy of a Murder. Some other pieces that were meant to be a tribute to his work are the cover art for The White Stripes' single The Hardest Button to Button and the designs don’t by comic book artist J. H. Williams III's for the Batman story "The Black Glove".
Lobel, Michael, and James Rosenquist. 2009. James rosenquist: Pop art, politics, and history in the 1960s. Berkeley: University of California Press.
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