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
