Top 10 Most Artistic Album Covers
The Velvet Underground And Nico
The Rolling Stones - Loveyoulive
Pink Floyd - The Division Bell
David Bowie - Diamond dogs
Nirvana in utero
Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
The Chemical Brothers - Push the Button
Van Halen - 1984
Michael Jackson - Dangerous
Elton John - Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy
Warhol Live taking Montreal by storm
September 24, 2008 by Ubermensch
Filed under Fine Art
Warhol Live, presented from September 25, 2008, to January 18, 2009 in Montreal, will explore the all-pervading and fundamental role of music and dance in the artist’s work and life, from the film music Warhol discovered in his youth to the disco scene at Studio 54, where he was one of the most famous regulars.
The exhibition will bring together some 640 works and objects, paintings, silkscreens, photographs, works on paper, installations, films, videos, album covers, as well as objects and documents from the artist’s personal archives.The museum has joined forces with Pittsburgh’s Andy Warhol Museum .
Specific interest should be the screen tests of the legendary Velvet Underground.As the Velvet’s manager from 1965 to 1967, Warhol had an unquestionable impact. They were the house band in Warhol’s multimedia show The Exploding Plastic Inevitable; he secured their first record deal with MGM; paid for the recording sessions; designed the album’s cover and suggested Nico sing with the band.The Velvet Underground & Nico appearing as #13 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
Nat Finkelstein took one of the Warhol portraits in the show, a large-scale image of the artist holding up a tambourine to his face.”Warhol fed off the youth who were around him, and their taste in music was infused into Andy,” Finkelstein said.
The exhibition is built around four major themes: Tuning In, which explores Warhol’s early interest in music; Sound and Vision, which looks at his commercial interest in the music industry; Producer, which highlights Warhol as the manager of a recording and film studio, the Silver Factory; and Fame, which covers his contributions to pop culture in the 1970s and up until his death in 1987.
Collector Paul Marechal spent 12 years tracking down the 50 album covers Warhol illustrated and that are featured in the multimedia exhibition.The covers show the transformation of the marketing and sale of music through image, ranging from the personification of the artist to the conceptualization of the band, like the zippered cover for the Stones’ Sticky Fingers album which ,VH1 network named the “No.1 Greatest Album Cover” of all time.