Most Influential Artistic Figures In Your Life

I did top 10, but you're not limited. In no particular order.



Paul Thomas Anderson . . . Writer, Director. Magnolia, Boogie Nights
Francis Ford Coppola . . . Writer, Director. The Godfather Trilogy, Apocalypse Now
Billy Corgan . . . Singer, Songwriter, Guitarist. Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, Adore
Stanley Kubrick . . . Writer, Director. 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange
John Lennon . . . Singer, Songwriter, Guitarist. The White Album, Abbey Road, Imagine
Paul McCartney . . . Singer, Songwriter, Guitarist. The White Album, Abbey Road
Jimmy Page . . . Writer, Guitarist, Producer. Physical Graffiti, Led Zeppelin III, Achilles' Last Stand
Martin Scorsese . . . Writer, Director. Goodfellas, Casino, Raging Bull
Tupac Shakur . . . Rapper, Poet, Actor. The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory, All Eyez On Me, R U Still Down?
Frank Sinatra . . . Singer, Actor. Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim, In the Wee Small Hours, The Reprise Collection

Elvis
John Lennon
Paul McCartney
Robert De Niro
Al Pacino
Noel Gallagher

Elvis is the most influential artist,whatever final point,if it wasn't for him,we would be living in totally differabt world,sounds crazy but its true.

Ayn Rand

Very very very good list Hagen!

My own picks I would add for myself:

Sir Ridley Scott - Director, BLADE RUNNER, ALIEN, LEGEND, GLADIATOR, etc.

Pink Floyd(Waters/Gilmour/Mason/Wright) - Best Rock act of the 1970s.

Bruce Campbell - B-movie acting icon. Hail to the King, baby.

James Joyce, John Keats, William Wordsworth, oh and Eugene O'Neill.

Bruce Springsteen
Robert DeNiro
Al Pacino
John Grisham
Led Zeppelin
Larry David
Jerry Seinfeld
Rolling Stones

Who likes my graphic?

It's harder than it looks.

George Harrison.

Paul McCartney and John Lennon
Sofia Coppola

Interesting topic.

Jack Kerouac
Hunter S. Thompson
Tom Wolfe
Bob Dylan
George Orwell

Quick list, I could probably think of quite a few more, but these popped to mind immediately.

For the same levels of contrast in each, I love it.

Yeah, that and the fact that they're all composed basically the same in relation to the frame, they're all roughly the same tone of black and white (some were originally in color), and they're all identically sized and positioned against one another. I had almost as much fun making the graphic as I did composing the list. (Thanks for helping me boost my ego there a little bit svsg )

This is a very interesting topic to me because I've found that it seems you can instantly deduce more about someone's personality, who they really are as a person and what they value in life, from this list as opposed to nearly anything else besides perhaps spending an extended amount of time with them. What that specific information may be, I can't quite say, but everyone's answers just seem to give that general sense that you've come to, at least partially, understand the individual.

Jimi Hendrix
J.S. Bach
Frida Kalho

Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Jay-z, Tupac, Biggie Smalls, Bob Dylan, Elvis, The Beatles, Al Pacino and David Chase

PS - I hope this doesn't stretch the page?


Edit: I forgot one

I can't believe I forgot to mention Barrett with the rest of Pink Floyd. Stupid me!

Jim Morrison
Andrei Tarkovsky
Chan Marshall
Jean-Luc Godard
Jeff Buckley

That's about it.

Ace Frehley


Bob Dylan


John Belushi


Johnny Cash


Peter Criss