Watch the short video interview with the British artist Storm Thorgerson who is the designer behind several iconic album covers. The full article can be found here on BBC.What are your favourite albums? Do you care about the artwork? Does it add to your enjoyment of the album if you like the artwork?
Why has album artwork been so important in the past? What will happen to it in the future?
Here are the pictures, the well-known Droeschout engraving on the left and the portrait of a young William Shakespeare recently found in the Cobbe family collection. On the lower picture you can see Professor Stanley Wells, chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust with the portrait.
Shakespeare no longer looks how we imagined.
In the new portrait, Shakespeare does not have a receding hairline.
Shakespeare’s nose and chin are rounded in the portrait.
The painting was found in an art gallery.
The Cobbe family bought the portrait from the gallery.
Droeshout’s engraving is the title portrait of the First Folio.
The First Folio was published in 1623.
Ben Jonson praised Droeshout’s engraving of Shakespeare.
In Shakespeare’s time, engraving was the only way to mass produce an image.
The lace in the newly-discovered portrait of Shakespeare shows him to be a man of some social standing.
