Art is a term that describes a diverse range of human activities and the products of those activities, but here refers to the visual arts, which cover the creation of images or objects in fields including painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, and other visual media.

These skillfully rendered paintings encouraged fan Glenn Bray to ask Barks if he could commission a painting of the ducks (" A Tall Ship and a Star to Steer Her By ", taken from the cover of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories # 108 by Barks ).

A " blockbuster " or " roller " is a large piece, almost always done in a block shaped style, done simply to cover a large area solidly with two contrasting colours, sometimes with the whole purpose of blocking other writers from painting on the same wall.

For Weird Tales ( November 1950 ), Freas did his first fantasy magazine cover, illustrating H. Russell Wakefield's " The Third Shadow " with his painting " The Piper ".

He was a participant in one of the all-time great literary hoaxes, I, Libertine ( Ballantine Books, 1956 ), along with Jean Shepherd, Ian Ballantine and Theodore Sturgeon, incorporating several hidden jokes and references into his cover painting for that book.

* 1916 – The Saturday Evening Post publishes its first cover with a Norman Rockwell painting ( Boy with Baby Carriage ).

The band Fleet Foxes used the proverb painting Netherlandish Proverbs for the cover of their eponymous album Fleet Foxes.

The album cover featured The Raft of the Medusa, with the faces of the characters in Théodore Géricault's painting replaced with those of the band members.

* May 20 – The Saturday Evening Post publishes its first cover with a Norman Rockwell painting ( Boy with Baby Carriage ).

Said was mainly concerned with literature in the widest sense, especially French literature, and did not cover visual art and Orientalist painting, though others, notably Linda Nochlin, have tried to extend his analysis to art, " with uneven results ".

With Forsythe's help, he submitted his first successful cover painting to the Post in 1916, Mother's Day Off ( published on May 20 ).

His last painting for the Post was published in 1963, marking the end of a publishing relationship that had included 321 cover paintings.

Rockwell had donated the painting depicted on the cover of the November 3, 1945 Saturday Evening Post to the store in 1948.

The illustration on the cover of the book is a 1913 painting by Liubov Popova titled " Composition with Figures " and belongs to the collection of the State Tretyakov Gallery.

One example of this experimentation is seen in Mati Klarwein's painting Annunciation, which was used as the cover art for Santana's Abraxas ( 1970 ).

The curricula cover a comprehensive course of drawing, painting, wood carving, embroidery, and carving of statues.

The interview appeared in the issue of 14 July 1990, whose cover showed a cartoon by Nicholas Garland, of Ridley painting onto a poster of Kohl a crude comb-over and a Hitler moustache.

The film stars Sean Connery, who plays Allan Quatermain, and features Captain Nemo, Mina Harker, Rodney Skinner aka An Invisible Man ( the rights could not be secured to The Invisible Man ), Dr. Jekyll / Edward Hyde, Dorian Gray, and U. S. Secret Service agent Tom Sawyer ( Gray and Sawyer were not in the comics, although a painting of a young man holding a cane with " Dorian Gray " printed under it appears on the cover of Volume I ).

Patchen first started painting in 1942 to make cover illustrations for his book The Dark Kingdom.

A painting of a scene from a 1936 story of Mickey, Donald and Goofy investigating an alleged haunted house was used as the cover of Gladstone Album # 26 ( 1989 ) which reprinted the story ( titled " The Seven Ghosts ").

A painting of the band by " Patrick " ( John Byrne ) was at an earlier point under consideration to be used as the album's cover.

* Black metal band Bathory used Arbo's painting of " The Wild Hunt " as the cover of their 1988 album Blood Fire Death.

* Viking metal band Falkenbach used Heine's painting of " Wodan's Wild Hunt " as the cover of their 1996 album, ... En Their Medh Riki Fara ....

Beck's painting inspired by Carl Barks ' unused cover sketch for the story " The Mines of King Solomon " ( Uncle Scrooge # 19, Sept .- Nov. 1957 ) was used as the cover when the story was reprinted in Gladstone Comic Album # 1 ( 1987 ).

In 2007, he announced he would release his autobiography, planned for March 2008, published by Hodder Headline and titled On the Rocks, which would cover the recent incidents in his life.

The DOB began publishing a magazine titled The Ladder in 1956 ; inside the front cover of every issue was their mission statement, the first of which stated was " Education of the variant ".

What had been a three volume set in the 1990 Del Rey edition was re-released by Stone Bridge Press as one single volume of 476 pages ( with a vastly improved cover design ), titled Mobile Suit Gundam: Awakening, Escalation, Confrontation.

His most famous work is probably its March 29, 1976 cover, an illustration titled " View of the World from 9th Avenue ", sometimes referred to as " A Parochial New Yorker's View of the World " or " A New Yorker's View of the World ", which depicts a map of the world as seen by self-absorbed New Yorkers.

An arc in Ultimate Spider-Man is titled " Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends " and issue # 118's cover, showing Spider-Man, Iceman and Firestar, is a homage to the series title screen.

This release was titled The Legendary A & M Sessions, with a red-marbled cover and ( later ) members Moon, Blakely, Vliet, Snouffer and Handley seated in a ' temperance dance band ' photo-pose.

* On-U Sound supergroup New Age Steppers has a reggae cover on their third album titled Foundation Steppers ( 1983 ) with Ari Up on the vocals.

In 1998, the cover images from The Sandman were released as one compiled volume titled Dustcovers: The Collected Sandman Covers.

" Released in May 1993, Me Amarás features a Spanish-language cover of the Laura Branigan song " Self Control ", titled " Que Dia Es Hoy ".

Ironically, though the lead single was titled " Movin ' On ", the album was a regression to their previous Eurodisco sound as illustrated by their cover of Andrea True Connection's " More, More, More ".

* 1964-In separate incidents, rebels in the Congo kill missionaries Paul Carlson, Phyllis Rine and Irene Ferrel as well as brutalizing missionary doctor Helen Roseveare ; Carlson is featured on December 4 Time magazine cover ; Hans von Staden of the Dorothea Mission proposes to Patrick Johnstone that he write the book now titled Operation World

Vanilla Fudge, the debut album by Vanilla Fudge, also contains a cover of " Strawberry Fields Forever " titled " ELDS "; the album in fact spelt out an acrostic of the song as an homage, with preceding tracks titled " STRA ", " WBER " and " RYFI.

Swedish metal band Entombed ( with Nicke Andersson on drums ) released a limited digipak edition of the 1997 album " DCLXVI: To Ride Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth " with a bonus CD titled " Family Favourites " featuring four cover songs.

In 1965, the Miracles was the first Motown group to adapt a name change when they were listed as Smokey Robinson & The Miracles on the cover of their 1965 album, also titled, Going to a Go-Go.

His track on " Almost Alice " is titled " Very Good Advice " which is a cover of one of the songs from the 1951 film adaptation of Alice in Wonderland.

The cover is by Kenneth Fagg, and is titled " Technocracy Versus the Humanities ".

The June 1954 issue of If, featuring a wraparound cover by Ken Fagg, titled " Lava Falls on Mercury "

Metallica themselves cite the band as an influence and even recorded a medley of their songs simply titled " Mercyful Fate " on their cover album Garage Inc .).

His fourth album was titled Who I Am, and it contained four number one hits: a cover of the Eddie Cochran standard " Summertime Blues ", followed by " Livin ' on Love ", " Gone Country " and " I Don't Even Know Your Name ".

In February 2010 that Paulina participated in the charity song ( a cover of " We Are The World " in Spanish ) for the people of Haiti, titled " Somos El Mundo ".

Also in 2003, Graham appeared on the cover of Time magazine for an article titled " The Science of Meditation ", indicating that Graham has been practicing Transcendental Meditation since 1991.

In 1958, at a live gig of the D. C .- based Milt Grant's House Party, attempting — at the urging of the local crowd — to work up a cover sound-alike for The Diamonds ' hit, " The Stroll ", they came up with an eleven and one half bar blues titled " Rumble " which they first called " Oddball ".