The Doomed Civilization Challenge

[Big Ol' Smitty]

The story is that, civilization approaching its possible doom (not really, but it's the premise of the poll), [TSM] has been assigned the task of assembling for posterity a representative collection of the Arts of Humankind, to be preserved in a sealed container so that some future beings of intelligence, discernment and taste can discover it and be impressed...What we all have to do is to nominate under the following 12 headings those artists whose work we would like to see going into the sealed container...

 

 

[Big Ol' Smitty]

1. Poet - TS Eliot

2. Playwright - Shakespeare

3. Novelist - Kurt Vonnegut

4. Composer - Mozart

5. Jazz Musician - Billie Holiday

6. Rock or Pop Star/Group - The Clash

7. Country Star/Group - Johnny Cash

8. Movie director - Wes Anderson (sorry, I'm impossibly white)

9. Painter - Monet

10. Photographer - fuck if I know...Ansel Adams

11. Sculptor - Michelangelo

12. Architect - Frank Lloyd Wright

13. (added by me) Rap Star/Group-Notorious B.I.G.

14. (added by me) Actor/Actress-Robert Duvall

[Big Ol' Smitty]

I couldn't decide if Tyler Perry was more of a director or playwright, so I'm creating a 15th category of "most brilliant individual of all time."

[Guest Vitamin X]

10. Photographer - fuck if I know...Ansel Adams

 

Annie Leibowitz?

[Your Paragon of Virtue]

1. Poet - Robert Frost

2. Playwright - Shakespeare

3. Novelist - James Joyce

4. Composer - Beethoven

5. Jazz Musician - Miles Davis

6. Rock or Pop Star/Group - Jimi Hendrix

7. Country Star/Group - Johnny Cash

8. Movie director - Orson Welles

9. Painter - Giorgio de Chirico

10. Photographer - Annie Leibowitz

11. Sculptor - Michelangelo (Not educated at all on this topic, so I will just go with the most famous)

12. Architect - Kurt W. Leucht

13. (added by me) Rap Star/Group- Outkast

14. (added by me) Actor/Actress-Jack Nicholson

[Big Ol' Smitty]

I'm gonna go ahead and assume you agree on Tyler Perry.

[The Niggardly King]

I'd just throw in belladonna, george carlin, and tech n9ne and call it a night

[Ravenbomb]

1. Poet - Edgar Allen Poe

2. Playwright - Tom Stoppard

3. Novelist - Hubert Selby Jr.

4. Composer - Mike Patton

5. Jazz Musician - Billie Holiday

6. Rock or Pop Star/Group - Pink Floyd

7. Country Star/Group - Neko Case

8. Movie director - Werner Herzog

9. Painter - Salvador Dali

10. Photographer - Nan Goldin

11. Sculptor - Michelangelo

12. Architect - Whoever did the Chartres

13. (added by me) Rap Star/Group- Del tha Funkee Homosapien

14. (added by me) Actor/Actress- Ingrid Bergman

[PILLS! PILLS! PILLS!]

1. Poet - Edgar Allen Poe

2. Playwright - David Mamet

3. Novelist - Kurt Vonnegut

4. Composer - Ludwig Van Beethoven

5. Jazz Musician - Charlie Parker

6. Rock or Pop Star/Group - The Beatles

7. Country Star/Group - Johnny Cash

8. Movie director - Stanley Kubrick

9. Painter - Vincent Van Gogh

10. Photographer - David LaChapelle

11. Sculptor - Michelangelo

12. Architect - Frank Lloyd Wright

13. Rap Star/Group- Wu-Tang Clan

14. Actor/Actress - Peter Sellers

[PILLS! PILLS! PILLS!]

Blacks is right. I would want to preserve the work of a standup comedian/spoken word performer. The ideas and accomplishments of George Carlin are much more important to me than pretty much all the ones of the artists that I listed.

[At Home]

1. Poet - Robert Frost

2. Playwright - Shakespeare

3. Novelist - Murakami

4. Composer - Mozart

5. Jazz Musician - John Coltrane

6. Rock or Pop Star/Group - The Beach Boys

7. Country Star/Group - Johnny Cash

8. Movie director - Francis Ford Copolla

9. Painter - Bob Ross

10. Photographer - Annie Leibowitz

11. Sculptor - Michelangelo

12. Architect - Frank Lloyd Wright

13. Cool guy - Ben Franklin

14. Philosopher - Plato