Best art work for a prog album cover

Fitzcarraldo wrote: lucas, landberkdoten, The cover of Uomo Di Pezza was painted by the Italian artist Walter Mac Mazzieri. It's an oil painting called Garbo Di Neve and you can see the cover on his Web site here: http://www.macmazzieri.com/garbodineve.html You can enjoy some of his other paintings on that site too.

Thanx a lot Fitz!

I was going slightly insane about this one  

Next time I have some art doubt, I will come to you

Peace

raleighgranprix said: "In a way, it is like Salvador Dali, though as in the second painting that was placed, the man, looks the way, we are accustomed of thinking that Italians look."

You've lost me there, I'm afraid! I don't think Italians look like that!

danbo said: "Bridge of Sighs is a brilliant work."

Absolutely. Had completely forgotten about Trower and Bridge Of Sighs, not having listened to it for 30 years. Now I'm getting itchy to get hold of it again!

raleighgranprix wrote: I'm sure, he has good music, described as a "white Hendrix" and friends of mine listen to him, but I don't know his music very well, except for bits here and there.

Bridge of Sighs is a brilliant work. Some great slow building epics, as well as hard rockers. IT's one of my favorite Non-Prog albums. One of those timeless wonders.

You know, who has some very fine album covers, http://home.ca.inter.net/~suth/trower/classic.html Robin Trower, look at those 3 studios on that page, played for Procol Harum, I have never looked to see if he is included on this site.

I'm sure, he has good music, described as a "white Hendrix" and friends of mine listen to him, but I don't know his music very well, except for bits here and there.

landberkdoten wrote: Lucas: Do you think that the artist behind Le Orme's "Uomo Di Pezza" front cover could be the same one involved in the art regarding "Il Fiume" and "Elementi" Paul Whitehead???   Regards, Land

No, I don't think. RGP said it could be Winslow Homer. BTW, I liked very much "Elementi". What does "Il fiume" sound like ?

Roger Dean's cover of Greenslade's s/t album is excellent, although the CD (or the copy below) does not do it justice. It's best to open the album out, as the front and back cover form one continuous picture.

and diddy mentioned the cover of ELP's Brain Salad Surgery (by HR Giger), which I agree is fabulous. I love the inside cover:

Again, you need to see the picture as large as possible to really appreciate it. If you like the above Giger picture, check out the picture on his Home Page: http://www.hrgiger.info/. No wonder they got him to design the alien and the sets for Alien!

The CD cover for the re-release of Brain Salad Surgery by Rhino Records has an innovation that I think is very nice: the plastic cover of the Jewel Case is ridgy; a bit like those postcards which, if you tilt them, display a different view. When you tilt the CD case you see a similar effect to opening the original LP cover. Clever. I wish more record companies were like Rhino.

Cheers, the best to you Danbo.

In fact, I speak a second language, I learned in the Southwest United States, Spanish, I translate that some, in my work.

Just here, I will say, I really like all languages, I've seen about. But in college, the juices flowed good to learn, now, sort of motivational problems.

To another album cover, well, the cover is good, but I am impressed, especially, if it is "album" sized, is the inside of Trilogy- ELP, I guess, those are real trees, real autumn leaves and all that, but it has always struck me as really fantastic, just short of surreal and 15 years, later after first seeing it, or whenever that was ... it seems even more spectacular. Any input is welcome on that comment. Those trees, look out of this world, but surely are real trees, of Nottingham forest or somewhere.

Of course, that one Jeff Beck album, does have a Rene Magritte painting of a large apple, that's good too. Beck-Ola, if I am not mistaken on the name.

"Rabanie lasu". I posted a reproduction of this painting in one of the art threads of the "discussions not related to music" page. Witkacy (Stanislaw Witkiewicz) is one of my favourite contemporaneous painters. Moreover he comes from the same country as me (i. e. Poland, although my parents left this country while I was 2 years old, I am very attached to it).

It is a beautiful remarkable painting; airbrush?

well, only letting you know, 3rd generation in America Polish ancestry ... that's all.

Have you seen the drawings in SAVATAGE - Tha Wake of Magellan ? there are some black and white hand drawings that are great