"Night Vision" by Suzanne Vega, off the "Solitude Standing" LP, is based
on the poem "Juan Gris" by Paul Eluard

"Kurt's Rejoinder" by Brian Eno, off the "Before and After Science" LP,
was inspired by Kurt Schwitters and contains a snippet of Schwitters
reciting his "Ur Sonata."

The undeservedly obscure Tonio K. included the hilarious "Merzsuite" on
his 1980 LP "Amerika (Cars, Guitars and Teenage Violence)"

John Lennon recorded any number of tributes to conceptual artist Yoko
Ono, though these have relatively little to do with her work.

Didn't Stephen Sondheim write an entire musical, "Sunday in the Park
with George," inspired by a Seurat painting?

And, planting tongue firmly in cheek, you could do "Venus in Blue Jeans
(Mona Lisa in a Pony Tail);"  the four-chord workout "Venus" (preferably
the 1984 Bananarama version, much superior to the original, which is now
being used to sell cars to boomers); and the inspiringly insipid tribute
to park statuary "Concrete Animals" by Japanese garage punks Shonen
Knife (off their LP "Rock Animals").

I obviously have thought about this way too much...

Eugene Dillenburg
Lead Developer, Philippines Coral Reef exhibit
John G. Shedd Aquarium
1200 South Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, Illinois  60605

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