Go.

 

In case people haven't seen it :)

Thanks, there is a poll attached.

 

Is it just me or doest the dead guy in the bottom right look like jonny a bit?

I like it, it's different. I like how the top of the second V blocks out her nipple :lol:

Thanks, there is a poll attached.

 

Is it just me or doest the dead guy in the bottom right look like jonny a bit?

 

YES!

 

Haha, maybe that's why the picked it!

Hands down their best artwork to date. In my opinion AROBTTH and X&Y sucked, and parachutes was decent. Definately the best.

coincidence the Jonny resemblance...

and currently this picture (original), the women has no nipple.

 

i like it,

 

but i really would had prefered a Goya painting, but that would had been too spanish for Coldplay :P

 

still i love their reference to that revolution...

it makes my interest on the album increases even more.

 

can't wait to have it :dance: :wacky:

Awesome.

coincidence the Jonny resemblance...

 

Hehe I know it's a coincidence...but it's still cool. :D

Even though the artwork is of a painting, I still love it. I really like the paint splatter.

Love it! :) Great painting and makes a great cover. I'm guessing the full title is on the spine of the album or on the back. My guess is having too many words on the front would detract from the powerful image.

 

And yes, weirdly the guy does look a little like Jonny... :laugh3:

Not read about what the painting actually means, but it's just so 'victory', 'live life' (despite the dead bodies!). I love it.

revolution, dead bodies, kid with guns on the right - I can't see any positive meaning like "Viva la Vida" ?? (they not celebrating)

 

(dead body of a french officer and flag of france in hands of rebels - ironic but also nothing with "Viva la Vida")

 

...really naive combination of the painting (it's meaning - also historical) and the title

 

imo they could invent sth better

I really like it! I voted 4 out of 5, its great! Haha, and that dead guy on the bottom right DOES look like Jonny! Thats crazy.

The main reason why I like it is because its instantly recognisable, and its so in your face. I dont see how anyone can not like this :wink:

But yes, I'm still wondering where they're putting the Death And All His Friends part.

Not read about what the painting actually means, but it's just so 'victory', 'live life' (despite the dead bodies!). I love it.

the title of Delacroix painting is: Liberty leading the People.

 

the women carrying the French flag means to represent Liberty.

this women mean to represent also the French Revolution slogan and ideals: 'Liberty, Brotherhood, Equalty'.

But those ideas that Napoleon leadered, weren't that good after all (just see the coincidence how it affected to Goya and Beethoven works, both believed Napoleaon ideals but got traumatized on the way Napoleon 'expanded' them through Europe. (Napoleon invided some European countries, saying he was bringing LBE but for that he killed his enemies, which make it be incoherent.

 

so imo this album cover and the title fits perfectly with that historical event 'French Revolution'.

 

So political and historical album i hope it will be.

I voted 4 out of 5, the only thing that I don't like is that it's a little strange to put together the spanish title and the french flag

 

Edit: ^ariadnasquire, hope you don't mind that I use the web artwork for the avatar, I saw yours after doing all the photoshop work

revolution, dead bodies, kid with guns on the right - I can't see any positive meaning like "Viva la Vida" ?? (they not celebrating)

 

(dead body of a french officer and flag of france in hands of rebels - ironic but also nothing with "Viva la Vida")

 

...really naive combination of the painting (it's meaning - also historical) and the title

 

imo they could invent sth better

 

I think the album art is meant to be a celebration of living for one's self, rather than going through the daily grind of working for others in an oppressive society. They could just as easily have used a painting depicting the American Revolution or the Saddam statue falling or whatever but I think this is more artistic in that it's not so politically relevant today... the focus isn't on partisanship as much as just the emotional effect.

I love the Delacroix, at this point they've buttered us up so well I honestly don't even care what the music sounds like. :)

I voted 4 out of 5, the only thing that I don't like is that it's a little strange to put together the spanish title and the french flag

 

Edit: ^ariadnasquire, hope you don't mind that I use the web artwork for the avatar, I saw yours after doing all the photoshop work

no problem Paul...

and btw as what i said, to me the artwork of the album and the title fits perfectly from my point of view, it seems an hommage to the 2nd century we are meant to be rememoring in Spain right now (arg and me abroad this June :\). so a political album, how we can idealise a thing and them find out, we are mistaken, or that the leaders use them on their benefits and so the idea is lost partially.. interesting.

 

now i can't wait to listen the album :nice:

of course the American Revolution would be great :)

 

but (anti)french relvolution was to violent and "the French Revolution ironically was a failed revolution: Liberté, Egalité, and Fraternité quickly descended to the towering figure of Robespierre and his Reign of Terror as the revolution spun out control and began to murder itself. First the royalists were beheaded, next the moderate girondists, and by then the violence and suspicion was totally out of hand as the revolution devoured itself."

so hard to compare American and French revolutions (some may compare French revolution to bolshevists or nazists) so putting such a painting is almost like putting a paiting with bolshevists or nazists)

I don't know about anyone else, but when I click on the artowkr to get the bigger version in a new window it doesn't work properly, only a quarter of it seems to be opening if you know what I mean. But I cunningly figured out the url of the bigger version:

 

http://www.coldplay.com/albumart.jpg

of course the American Revolution would be great :)

 

but (anti)french relvolution was to violent and "the French Revolution ironically was a failed revolution: Liberté, Egalité, and Fraternité quickly descended to the towering figure of Robespierre and his Reign of Terror as the revolution spun out control and began to murder itself. First the royalists were beheaded, next the moderate girondists, and by then the violence and suspicion was totally out of hand as the revolution devoured itself."

so hard to compare American and French revolutions (some may compare French revolution to bolshevists or nazists) so putting such a painting is almost like putting a paiting with bolshevists or nazists)

 

Now that is a bit of a stretch to equate the French Revolution with the Bolshevik or Nazism coming to power. I don't want to get into a whole argument about it but the American and French Revolutions are historically and theoretically very much alike.

Anyhow, for the record, Lady Liberty did indeed have a right nipple (and a left one too for that matter,) in the original painting.

Historian François Furet in his work, Le Passé d'une illusion (1995) (The Passing of An Illusion (1999) in English translation) explores in detail the similarities between the French Revolution and the Russian Revolution of 1917 more than a century later, arguing that the former was taken as a model by Russian revolutionaries. This is in partial contrast with the Marxist tradition, which has usually claimed that the 1871 Paris Commune was the Bolsheviks' primary inspiration source.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution

 

"The three fundamentally leftist revolutions, those that spawned France's democracy, Russian's international socialism, and Germany's national socialism, formed and fashioned the history of the last two hundred years and established the 'Centuries of the G' — guillotines, gaols, gallows, gas chambers, and gulags." Leftism Revisited, pg xvii

 

Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_von_Kuehnelt-Leddihn

True Jacek, it could be taken to mean some negative things... that's the way all political things are I guess.

 

For some reason imagining Coldplay releasing a Nazi-themed album is sort of funny to me, though, lol. Maybe they'd go on tour with fake Hitler mustaches. It could be like The Producers and be a huge sell-out hit.

Historian François Furet in his work, Le Passé d'une illusion (1995) (The Passing of An Illusion (1999) in English translation) explores in detail the similarities between the French Revolution and the Russian Revolution of 1917 more than a century later, arguing that the former was taken as a model by Russian revolutionaries. This is in partial contrast with the Marxist tradition, which has usually claimed that the 1871 Paris Commune was the Bolsheviks' primary inspiration source.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution

 

"The three fundamentally leftist revolutions, those that spawned France's democracy, Russian's international socialism, and Germany's national socialism, formed and fashioned the history of the last two hundred years and established the 'Centuries of the G' — guillotines, gaols, gallows, gas chambers, and gulags." Leftism Revisited, pg xvii

 

Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_von_Kuehnelt-Leddihn

 

There are a number of way one can compare these historical events, however, Ideologically the French and Bolshevik Revolutions are quite dissimilar when compared to the American. I won't even mention the rise of German national socialism, as it was never associated with a violent revolution rather than the aftermath of a failed democracy, except the fact that the Germans (and Italians for that matter) perverted the French idea of Nationalism. But as I said, no need to get into a whole argument here. Can't we all just smile, shake hands, and be ecstatic about new Coldplay?