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Modern albums in old paintings are just awesome

Modern albums in old paintings are just awesome

Modern albums in old paintings are just awesome
14 April 2016

Ever tried clicking ‘artists’ on your iPod to find a cluster of paintings from the renaissance era flash up on your screen?

No, because that would be silly wouldn’t it? But that's the idea at the core of Instagram account Album + Art, an ongoing series meshing modern albums with classic paintings for seemingly no better reason than seeing the likes of Lil' Wayne chilling out in a crib of 18th century Belgium. The work of genius Eisen Bernardo, they're spectacularly fun.

So with a certain Mancunian band just given the special treatment, which just might now be the earliest depiction of swagger in the art world, we could think of no better excuse to bring you the best of them.

Enjoy.

Oasis - (What's The Story) Morning Glory

Giuseppe De Nittis - London series


Paolo Nutini - Caustic Love

Edvard Munch - The Scream


Zayn - Mind of Mine

Raphael - The Madonna of the Pinks


Pink Floyd - The Wall

Edward Hopper - High Noon


Meghan Trainor - Title

The Letter - Madrazo


The Weeknd - Beauty Behind The Madness

Joshua Reynolds - Admiral Holburne with his Son, Francis Holburne


Frank Ocean - Channel Orange

Fernando Botero - Oranges


David Bowie - Heroes

Pascal Adolphe Jean Dagnan - A Young Man And Woman Gaze Out A Window


Eagles - Desperado

Carl George Boppo - The Annoucement of Wallenstein's Death



Kanye West - Real Friends (single)

John Bagnold Burgess - Licensing the Beggars in Spain


The Doors - Morrison Hotel

Edward Hopper - New York Office


Luther Vandross - The Classic Christmas Album

People In The Sun - Edward Hopper


Michael Jackson - Xscape

Vincent Van Gogh - The Zouave


Coldplay - Christmas Lights

Vincent Van Gogh - The Starry Night


Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin'

Claude Monet - The La Rue Bavolle


John Legend - Get Lifted

Henri Fantin-Latour - Portrait of Leon Maitre


Katy Perry - Ur So Gay

Madrazo y Garreta - Portrait Of Maria Hahn


Pharrell Williams - Girl

Jacques Louis David - The Death of Socrates


Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt

Jules Joseph Lefebvre - Portrait of M Fitzgerald 1889 


Lil Wayne - Rebirth

Gustave Léonard de Jonghe - The Afternoon Visit 


The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers

Francesco Hayez - Winning athlete


Shakira - Shakira

Edmund Blair Leighton - The New Governess


Alicia Keys - The Element of Freedom

Vicente Palmaroli - Infanta Isabel de Bourbon e Bourbon


Weezer - White Album

Rostov The Great - Konstantin Yuon


Taylor Swift

Leon Francois Comerre - La Belle Liseuse


Young Thug - Slime Season 3

Raffaello Sanzio - Christ Blessing


David Bowie - Heathen

Herbert James Gunn - Portrait of Hugh William Osbert


Frank Sinatra - My Way

Robert Payton Reid - Little Tea & Gossip