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.
There is nothing better than music. With countless songs, artists, and genres of music in this world, there cannot be just the sound of music or singing. People want visuals to their favorite sounds as well. They love the music videos, album covers, posters, and magazines. Music Icons magazine pays tribute to very influential and popular bands of all time essentially. On the cover of this particular edition, “Pink Floyd” printed across the top in large, black letters with the subheadings: “The Story Behind Every Album” in red letters and “50 Year Salute to Rock’s Most Mysterious Band” below that in black letters. At the very top of the cover, the band’s most popular album’s covers are at the top in chronological order of when they were released. There is a white brick pattern background and along the bottom are the band’s four main members in black and white. This edition was printed in 2015 in the United Kingdom and the articles inside are not credited to one particular writer. The cover seems simple but it is still effective. Music Icons effectively reaches their target audience of Pink Floyd fanatics, along with people who might have heard of the band, but do not know anything about them through pathos, logos, and slight lack of
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decades and decades to come. Music is a way of expression for some and a way
It has allowed us to go to another place, expressing the emotion and social issues of a particular decade. As our societies morals and beliefs change, music will continue to change with it. With the help of new advancements, music will always be a way for us to speak the language of generations to come and bring a variety of new music, messages, styles, and social expectations.
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Though most works of art have some underlying, deeper meaning attached to them, our first impression of their significance comes through our initial visual interpretation. When we first view a painting or a statue or other piece of art, we notice first the visual details – its size, its medium, its color, and its condition, for example – before we begin to ponder its greater significance. Indeed, these visual clues are just as important as any other interpretation or meaning of a work, for they allow us to understand just what that deeper meaning is. The expression on a statue’s face tells us the emotion and message that the artist is trying to convey. Its color, too, can provide clues: darker or lighter colors can play a role in how we judge a piece of art. The type of lines used in a piece can send different messages. A sculpture, for example, may have been carved with hard, rough lines or it may have been carved with smoother, more flowing lines that portray a kind of gentleness.
The piece looks as if it were printed on to a canvas after the artist
Lobel, Michael, and James Rosenquist. 2009. James rosenquist: Pop art, politics, and history in the 1960s. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Music are a few things we tend to hear every day. Whether or not it’s from our own ipods, in our cars, or background music to our lives. A song exists for pretty much every feeling and music will be thought of as extremely healing mechanism. Over the years there are various varieties of music that everyone embrace completely different beats, sounds, and evoke different emotions. Such varieties of music is hip hop and rap, alternative music, and rock and roll music. Music incorporates a long line and every single sound and sort of music is tangled together inside each other and influenced by each other. For these reasons, music not solely defines a sort of sound, however additionally recreates lifestyles and defines entire generations. The ability of music will be seen from all differing kinds of music.
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.
Music in this century is beginning to have more of an effect to people than ever before. It has evolved into calming and something that anyone can dance to. However, some music genres are becoming too provocative due to the lyrics being hateful to many things. But for some
perfectly captures JoJo’s transformation from a pubescent teen to a young adult, if put side-by-side to her past albums. III’s cover allows new and old fans to finally see JoJo for who she really is rather than what people wanted her to be in past cover arts. This cover seems more significant than past cover arts simply because it is so striking and personal for a close-up headshot. JoJo really seems to just want to lay it all out there for all to see what true individualism is. III.’s cover is extremely chic and stylish and right now that is exactly who JoJo is, an individual who is trying to project their best personal
...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".