Album Cover Art Analysis-The Beatles - Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band

This album art can be deemed as pop art, art that emerges from popular culture and high art. Peter Blake is the artist who designed this album artwork, Blake is famous established, british pop artist. This album artwork is viewed as a revolutionary creation it broke boundaries of a work of art with its collage of famous figures. The flowers displaying the bands name relates to the time and lifestyle, the hippee nature of peace and love. The bass drum towards the back reveals circus writing which gives an element of fun, the drum itself codes music. 

A large statement is made with The Beatles wearing vibrantly coloured military uniforms. This is actually mimicing the establishment. It defies and undermines the military ways. The bands actual positioning establishes their cult significance, in front of the many famous figures in the background.


Finally the actual background is a blue sky representing happiness; freedom; summer of love; exotic; peaceful; heaven; hope. And a palm tree that signifies the idea of an island, the band being untouchable, escaping the british norm and the sense of exotica.