Monday, November 26, 2018

the album cover art of Crush, by OMD (also known as Orchestral Manoeuvers in the Dark) was based on an obscure 70 year old painting



While this is a painting of Paul Slater, the theme of an Edward Hopper influences the painting as dictated by Caz Hildebrand. The album from my readings is full of oddities. Hildebrand decided he wanted a car, a couple, and the Hopper type theme. Slater did the work and assumed it went well since no alterations were needed. The main building in the center right is almost a duplicate from Hopper’s 1930 painting Early Sunday Morning.


https://albumcoverart.wordpress.com/2008/12/17/1985-orchestral-maneuvers-in-the-dark-crush/
http://poulwebb.blogspot.com/2010/12/edward-hopper.html

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    1. well thank you, are you specifically interested in album covers, or art? Or the origin story approach to describing this piece of art?

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    2. Album cover art in particular! It is a genre of itself!

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    3. agreed, see https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2019/03/it-started-long-time-ago-in-la-artist.html
      and https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2017/08/zz-top-album-cover-art-by-barry-e.html
      and https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2013/10/zz-top-eliminator-afterburner-recycler.html
      and https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2017/01/i-love-to-learn-of-wonderful-people.html
      and https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2018/01/how-to-sell-records-101-borrow-any-one.html
      but the most incredible is https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2020/02/diving-back-into-incredible-album-art.html
      drag racing album cover art: https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2016/06/drag-racing-lps-album-cover-art.html
      interesting for a junkyard: https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-kasenetz-katz-singing-orchestral.html
      and Ed Roth's https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/07/did-you-know-ed-roth-made-record-or-two.html

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