Best art work for a prog album cover

raleighgranprix wrote: I believe the painter, artist is Winslow Homer, American Classic, http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000252H.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg that Kansas puts on the cover and Masque by the same group are good covers. Not necessarily my favourite covers to look at if I'm at home, I will pull various KC albums out. If you did not know, the original "Stand Up" by Jethro Tull, you open up, and like some greeting cards, band figurines stand up, I never noted the parallel that this has with Benefit; the cut out stand ups on that cover. Oh, and in this thread or one of the others, one mentioned Led Zeppelin. How interesting, that Hipgnosis, designed some Floyd Covers, WYWH, wish you were here, comes to mind. Zep's Presence and all of those accompanying photos are pretty cool, very striking.  http://www.sound.jp/hipgnosis/yapwall/yhip.html  Hipgnosis gallery, sans Presence, too much to read, maybe the same company did "a nice pair" as well, maybe not mentioned in the PF catalog; if it was  a release of two previous PF releases.

Awesome selection!

Thanx for the URL's BTW

lucas wrote: I like very much this cover artwork, but nonetheless I don't know who painted it. But I like also the following artists : Roger Dean (the red dragon, Steve Howe's cover art for "Not necessarily acoustic" is awesome) Paul Whitehead (Peter Hammill's "Fool's mate" has a sublime cover, see also Le Orme's last LP : "Elementi") Kim Poor Peter Cross (the painter for Anthony Phillips) Mark Wilkinson (see my avatar) Peter Woodroffe (Pallas' "The sentinel")  J. B. Mathingly (Jordan Rudess'"Feeding the wheel")

Magnificent illustration for a wonderful album... almost as surreal as Polish painter's Witkacy in his piece "Ršbanie lasu. Walka.", just saying they kinda look alike from the same sort of art trend... well, I don't know much 'bout art, I just know I love this "Le Orme" album cover

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Fates Warning - Awaken the Guardian
Dream Theater - Awake
Zero Hour - Metamorphosis

I like very much this cover artwork, but nonetheless I don't know who painted it.

But I like also the following artists :

Roger Dean (the red dragon, Steve Howe's cover art for "Not necessarily acoustic" is awesome)

Paul Whitehead (Peter Hammill's "Fool's mate" has a sublime cover, see also Le Orme's last LP : "Elementi")

Kim Poor

Peter Cross (the painter for Anthony Phillips)

Mark Wilkinson (see my avatar)

Peter Woodroffe (Pallas' "The sentinel") 

J. B. Mathingly (Jordan Rudess'"Feeding the wheel")

 

Anything by Roger Dean does it for me, I've even in the past taken the fact that he designed the cover as a recommendation of the music.

Cesar, you're absolutely right about TAAB, it must be the only sleeve which lasts longer than the album when you sit down and read it!

It's intersting how with the demise of LPs, sleeve designs had to change. With the restricted area of a CD cover, would the likes of the covers Roger Dean designed for Yes have had nearly the same impact today? Nowadays, it's more about close ups, and less about landscapes.

I notice some of Spock's Beard and the Flower Kings earlier works have been released on CD in limited edition 7 inch covers, which look like small LP sleeves which show off the artwork much better. Hopefully this is something record companies will do more often. How about re-releasing "Yessongs" in remastered format on CD, but packaged in the original LP sized double gatefold sleeve?

i've seen this post previously... and i think that over the years and over the "tastes" we must achive a certain degree of respect, because the artwork is "the face" of the record, so, i think that most of the covers of Strom Thorgerson, and Bill Smith studio are worth talking about, also, i know that so many people in here admire Roger dean, but to my point of view, those drawings are excellent but to "dated", anyway, is my point of view, to me one of the must impresive covers i've seen is the "in absentia" record from Porcupine tree, a very raw and dramatic cover, or the cover for Peter gabriel's "up", cheers

peace

The best cover i've ever seen is that of Jaz Coleman - Kashmir: Symphonic Led Zeppelin i spent more than an hour looking at it, the drawings were making averything in life out of books, buildings of books, fountain of books. it was very artistic actually. though it is not prog. i cant think of a specified prog album right now, maybe i should go take a look again

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Great couple of selections and great albums BTW  

"Jumbo" is also one of those album covers to remember, a very eclectic yet funny one

landberkdoten wrote: moonchild wrote: I like the artwork for King Crimson > Lizard. Lots of detail. Yeah, most of KC's front covers are quite intriguing...

Except for Earthbound, the black cover. What the freak was that?