Fred Hart is a very talented artist from Chicago who has created artwork for each track from Kanye’s 808s & Heartbreak. The artwork is so dope. The concept of using the image of an actual human heart with symbols that represent each track title is very creative. A heart with legs standing on a Welcome mat for Welcome To Heartbreak and a woman standing over a melted heart?!?! What?!? That’s semi-genius and it shows how creativity inspires creativity. Below is Fred’s explanation behind the artwork. Hit the jump for the entire statement and artwork for all 11 tracks.
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From Fred Hart:
“Well here it is, the complete series of my version of 808s & Heartbreak song covers! I begin with the initial cover for the album, and then go song by song, as they’re presented on the album, each telling a story through imagery, as a metaphor for the journey Kanye West has traveled that allowed us this genius piece of work, 808s & Heartbreak.
Each cover looks to create a sort of frame by frame for the album as a whole, with imagery relating to each song, a still shot from each song that allows you to use the lyrics and project your interpretations of each song onto the piece. This is my tribute to Kanye West, whose trials and tribulations have undoubtedly made this the album of the year, if not this decade in my opinion, and a tribute to his mother Donda West as well. So I hope you enjoy this artwork, and please feel free to let me know what you think.” [Fred Hart aka Fhart06]
Fred Hart
University of Arizona [Fine Arts]
fredhart@email.arizona.edu
