Album Covers – The Bigger Picturegives new life to eight iconic designs. Adele becomes an undead creature with rotting flesh in a nightmarish graveyard scene, while the Biebs is being arrested and handcuffed. The Beatles have been transported across an ocean, to Route 66 in the American Southwe...
Edward Avedisian (June 15, 1936, Lowell, Massachusetts – August 17, 2007, Philmont, New York) was an American abstract painter who came into prominence during the 1960s. His work was initially associated with Color field painting and in the late 1960s with Lyrical Abstraction. Barry ...
O'Hara became prominent in New York City's art world. O'Hara is regarded as a leading figure in the New York School—an informal group of artists, writers, and musicians who drew inspiration from jazz, surrealism, abstract expressionism, action painting, and contemporary avant-garde art moveme...
He is known for his album covers for The Rolling Stones, Jay-Z, Lou Reed, Talking Heads, David Byrne and Aerosmith. Sagmeister was 15 when he launched his design career at the Austrian youth magazine “Alphorn.” He studied graphic design at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, ...
In response to "Bigger Picture" fellow pandaKevin Zollercreated thisimage. I'm turning this into an OPEN LIST! Challenge: 1. Find a famous album cover 2. Reveal what's outside their margins 3. Post it here #1 The Mystery Of The Dark Side Of The Moon Explained...
Inspired by Roger Dean, who painted album covers for the likes of Yes, Vaughan studied graphic design at Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic. With his studios 23 Envelope and then v23, Oliver created distinctive jackets for bands as diverse as Pixies and The Breeders, Throwing Muses Cocteau Twins ...
Hetfield was uncomfortable with the band's mid-'90s imagery — from their photo shoots to the album cover, a somewhat graphic Andres Serrano photo that featured a mixture of semen and bovine blood. "Lars and Kirk were very into abstract art, pretending they were gay—I think they knew it...
A nursing home in England has come up with a fun and clever way to lift its residents’ spirits during the COVID-19 pandemic. They’ve been taking turns recreating the photos found on iconic album covers. “Residents have been in Lockdown for 4 months and it’s been my job and privile...
He spent many of his later years in poverty and poor health, but enjoyed a minor career resurgence with a turn towards the more explicitly avant-garde, and created a series of abstract paintings during the last years of his life. He died in 2001 from complications from heart surgery. In ...
Recognized first as a second-generation Abstract Expressionist he lived in New York City and in Mallaig, Scotland, inspired by the dramatic skies over the Sound of Sleat. His work is included in international collections such as the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Edinburgh), Whitney ...