Give me three names
1. They must be artists (in any genre, any medium),
2. They must be dead,
3. They must have left a lasting change on their craft.
Here are my three - Mark Rothko, Arnold Schönberg, Augustine of Hippo
Ready, Go!
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Antonio Carlos Jobim, e.e. cummings, W.C. Handy
Andy Warhol, Marlon Brando, Big Mama Thornton
In light of the disclaimer and warning Michael gave us,
Jack Chick, Liberace, and Sam Butcher (creator of Precious Moments.)
Knock yourself out, moneybags.
how long did it take you to google Precious Moments?
Not long.
lmao
Johnny Cash, Henri Nowen
Cezanne is one I’d pick. Don’t know about the other two, have to think about it more.
Here are my writer picks: Dante Alighieri, Lewis Carroll, A. A. Milne. Are you sure we don’t get paid for these? A million or two against literally billions isn’t much.
William Shakespeare, Hitchcock, W.A. Mozart
C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jimi Hendrix
James Joyce, Thelonious Monk, Jackson Pollock
Orson Wells, G.K. Chesterton, Mae West
Lauryn Hill, Beverly Sills, Toni Morrison
Is there a point at which we should stop?
Lauryn Hill died? I mean, I know her career did, but she’s still alive, right?
Keith Moon, Leonardo DeVinci, Jimi Hendrix
Monet, Sarah Bernhardt, Josephine Baker
Sarah Vaughan, Dizzy Gillespie, Carol Channing
Jubal. David. Solomon.
Miles Davis, Vincent Van Gogh, Keith Green.
Ansel Adams, Saul Bass, Cezanne or Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (it’s debatable)
June, you need to come down to LA and lead all of us on a Museum tour. I think that would rock.
Have you seen Ansel Adam’s “Lost LA” series of photographs? All urban sketches, some sad, some ironic, some just starkly beautiful, all shot in Los Angeles. A guy dug through the LA library archives and ran across them, posted scans up on flickr here.
I keep forgetting the “must be dead” part. I’m more of a “color outside the lines” kind of girl.
Salvador Dali, Elvis Presley, John Denver
Stevie Ray Vaughn, Johnny Cash, Orville and Wilbur Wright
Josiah, I don’t know if we should roll the Wright bros in with “artist”.
Yahweh…. Yahweh…. Yahweh….
See, I AM a trinitarian.
Yahweh’s dead? oooo…this doesn’t bode well…
Bach, Ella Fitzgerald, Eugène Delacroix
aparently Phil is Nietzschean.
Nah… just not smart enough to remember the basic conditions.
Oy vey….
I believe I should withdraw from further aesthetic conjecture, being unable to meet normative conditions for philosophical discourse… like the ability to remember more than one thing at a time.
OK.. try this.
Leonin. Josquin du Pres. Montiverdi.
Now see, that’s what I’m talking about! 3 names I didn’t know, but should have, who radically changed the direction of thier craft. Thanks, Phil.
Mike… you weren’t paying attention in Medieval Music History, eh? I was going to come up with one of those guys for my 3, but decided I’d have to pull out a book or search online, and that’s WAY too much work.
Mr. Rogers, Jim Henson, Captain Kangaroo
I think I’m getting into the spirit of this.
Eisenstein, Hitchcock and Lucas
Wells, Heinlein, Clarke
Some of you won’t like this… but it IS an art.
Thucydides, Sun-Tsu, Clausewitz
oh man, that’s a whoooooooole other thread.
I think we say “art of war” entirely metaphorically. At least I do.
Let me just repeat … that’s a whoooooole other thread. Which you may start if you wish.
Michael, thanks for the link to Ansel’s LA series…cool to see what he shot in an urban setting.
As far as a museum tour goes, that would indeed rock, but I’m hardly the person to lead it. Alas, at this point in my life, I am qualified only to lead a tour of…..ummmm…..Target?
I recently took my teenage nieces and nephew to the Crocker Art Museum here in Sacramento. Sigh. It’s quaint. (The Getty has ruined me a bit.)
Don’t worry, Michael. I won’t hi-jack your comments section. This time. (”Anyway, Phil started it!” she whined.)
Tupac Shakur, Truman Capote, Arthur Miller
Stradivarius, John Cassavetes, Emily Dickinson
June, I would pay money to have you lead a tour through target.
And my dear, the Getty has ruined all of us.
And we will gladly take your money for a tour through Target.
John O’Sullivan, Bruce Lee, Ed Parker
Well, you’d probably count dancing, right?
Helen Hayes, Louis Armstrong, Elvis Presley
Thom - is Helen Hayes any relation?