#cal schenkel

[nofatclips]

Son of Mr. Green Genes by Frank Zappa from the album Hot Rats

[shortmeteor]

Cal Schenkel is an amazing artist. You know him, mainly, from Zappa cover art. And it's hard to find much other information on him (which is a bit strange, and very annoying).

He has a vision of the world that is very American, very underground art, very counter-culture, but never in a easy way. There is a real bite to the way the disgust mingles with pleasure. And being LP covers, very "commercial" items, adds to the levels of irony.

The world Schenkel conjures is similar to Philip K Dick or Burroughs (or Ballard). A fake world of vacant spaces, sets, of a (filmic?) gaze making us; representation preceding presence. There are strange machines, grotesque mutants, and abstraction, painterly textures and collage.

I love it so so much.

[albumcoverhalloffame]

Album Cover Hall of Fame News Update and Link Summary for December, 2023

Just published - this month’s summary with an overview of who has been nominated for Grammy Awards in the packaging-related categories, follow that with our regular updates on album art/artist-related exhibitions, interviews, sales/auctions and other bits

Posted December 1, 2023 by Mike Goldstein, AlbumCoverHallofFame.com Hello and Happy Holidays to all of you – this is the time of year that we’re all supposed to look back and reflect on all that’s happened over the past 12 months and use those thoughts to consider how the next 12 months might be better lived (and, perhaps, how we might all make the world a little better place for ourselves and…

[schibborasso]

the mothers: just another band from L.A., 1972 the inner gatefold of the album cover features cal schenkel at his desk with a fabricated storyboard drawing ...

[mosertone]

Cal Schenkel

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[theartofcoverart]

Sandy Hurvitz, Sandy’s Album is Here at Last! released 1968 on Bizarre. Photo and design by Cal Schenkel.

[only-art]

Cal Schenkel

[muddyfatty]

Cal Schenkel Artwork

[custompictureframer]

"The Grand Wazoo" Signed Giclee Print by Cal Schenkel

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[mrdirtybear]

Graphic artist Cal(vin) Schenkel (born 1947), the above image is from here a brief article on the record sleeves Schenkel designed for Frank Zappa and for label Zappa owned, Straight Records. Here is a fuller guide to his work and an extended interview with him where for outliving Zappa he gets the final word on the relationship between the two of them after Zappa had so much say in their creative partnership when he was on the music side of it. 

[oldshowbiz]

1970 - An original composition by Emitt Rhodes that picks up where The Beatles left off. Produced by cult favorite Curt Boettcher with an album cover designed by Cal Schenkel. 

[jenzelart]

Happy Mother’s Day, crow! mixed media crow art on album cover

[sofakingmanyrecords]

Speaking of Frank Zappa, here he is not wearing a monkey fur coat, and a bare shot of the cover of “We’re Only In It For The Money”

[jbacardi]

Cal Schenkel-illustrated ad for The Mothers of Invention’s Fillmore East June 1971 album.

[thelovegangster]

Printed by @calschenkel

[artfromthefuture]

Original full page newspaper concert ad for Alice Cooper and Mothers Of Invention at the Shrine in LA. Art by Cal Schenkel