great artists you would want in bnw.

I have fairly modern taste so I'm not sure if my favorites will be blocked by copyright issues... That being said, I'd love to see Kurt Vonnegut with Cat's Cradle and Joe Strummer with London Calling.
 
I should think The Scream is pretty much a lock, it's such an iconic image.

Also, copyright permitting, I'd say:
Picasso - Guernica
Dali - Persistence Of Memory
Tolstoy - Anna Karenina
Milton - Paradise Lost
Dumas - The Count Of Monte Cristo
Joyce - Ulysses
Thomas - Under Milk Wood

I imagine Dylan Thomas and James Joyce are probably too recent, though. Does anyone know exactly how copyright works in this situation?
 
if it wherent for copyright i would want
elvis jailhouse rock
micael jackson thriller
ozzy osbourne ironman :rockon:
simon and garfunkel sound of silence
louis armstrong what a wonderful world
 
ahte said:
I should think The Scream is pretty much a lock, it's such an iconic image.

Also, copyright permitting, I'd say:
Picasso - Guernica
Dali - Persistence Of Memory
Tolstoy - Anna Karenina
Milton - Paradise Lost
Dumas - The Count Of Monte Cristo
Joyce - Ulysses
Thomas - Under Milk Wood

I imagine Dylan Thomas and James Joyce are probably too recent, though. Does anyone know exactly how copyright works in this situation?
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Standard copyright lasts 70 years after the creator's death, so no Picasso, Dali, Joyce or Thomas. Also no Munch, Mondrian, Orwell or Huxley.
 
Calouste said:
Standard copyright lasts 70 years after the creator's death, so no Picasso, Dali, Joyce or Thomas. Also no Munch, Mondrian, Orwell or Huxley.
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Thanks for clarifying!

OK, that wipes out a lot of my personal favourites then (although there's a decent chance of The Scream for Civ VI :)). Although that might not be such a bad thing, it would help keep a lot of anachronistic weirdness to a minimum.
 
Giuseppe Verdi : Don Carlo
Richard Wagner : Der Ring des Nibelungen (or Parsifal or the Flying Dutchman)
Gustav Mahler : Das Lied von der Erde
Carl Maria von Weber : Der Freischütz
Giacommo Puccini : Turandot
Gioachino Rossini : The Barber of Seville
George Friedrich Handel : Messiah
Hector Berlioz : The fantastic Symphony
H.P. Lovecraft : The call of Chtulu
Rembrandt : The Night Watch
Eugène Delacroix : Liberty guiding the people
Theodore Gericault : The raft of the Medusa
Victor Hugo : Les Misérables
Stendhal : The Red and the Black
Michelangelo : The last Judgment
 
Musicians (mostly classical and medieval, since my favourite contemporary artists are way too... contemporary):
Spoiler :
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (of course) - Don Giovanni or Requiem Mass
Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony no. 9
Gabriel Fauré - Requiem
Gustav Holst - The Planets
Edward Elgar - The Enigma Variations or Pomp and Circumstance
Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings
Georges Bizet - Carmen (I'd like 'l'Arlésienne' as well but Carmen is just too famous and amazing to not include)
Hector Berlioz - L'enfance du Christ
Claude Debussy - Suite bergamesque
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Swan Lake
George Friederic Handel - Messiah
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Missa Papae Marcelli
Thomas Tallis - Spem in alium
and these will never be added but I would be overjoyed if they were:
Pérotin - Viderunt omnes
Hildegard of Bingen - Ordo virtutum


For writers:
Spoiler :

Aldous Huxley - Brave New World (come on, it has to be there!)
George Orwell - Animal Farm (controversially I prefer this to 1984)
Boethius - The Consolation of Philosophy
Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales
Jean de Meun - Le Roman de la Rose (it probably won't be added, but it should be)
Christine de Pizan - Le Livre de la Cité des Dames
Alain Chartier - Le Quadrilogue Invectif
Sir Thomas More - Utopia
Dante Aligheri - The Divine Comedy
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre
Thomas Hardy - Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Emile Zola - Germinal
Victor Hugo - Les Misérables
Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart
Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot
Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
Halldór Laxness - Independent People
Primo Levi - If This is a Man
J.R.R. Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings (depending on what the Tolkien estate think of the idea...)


Artists (not sure whether having paintings with nudity would affect the game's rating, though?):
Spoiler :
Sandro Botticelli - The Birth of Venus
Michelangelo - David
Leonardo da Vinci - Mona Lisa (of course)
Hieronymus Bosch -The Garden of Earthly Delights
Giuseppe Arcimboldo - Summer or The Librarian
Caravaggio - Supper at Emmaus
Johannes Vermeer - I love The Astronomer, but they're clearly going to pick Girl with a Pearl Earring
J. M. W. Turner - Ovid Banished from Rome
Gustav Klimt - The Kiss
Tamara de Lempicka - Jeune fille au vent
Frida Kahlo - My Dress Hangs There or Self-Portrait with Monkeys
 
Bram Stoker, Sergei Rachmaninoff, J.R.R Tolkien, Felix Mendelssohn, Claude Debussy, Claude Monet, Leonardo Da Vinci, Botticelli, J.S Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, C.S. Lewis, Mary Shelley.
 
blackcatatonic said:
Musicians (mostly classical and medieval, since my favourite contemporary artists are way too... contemporary):
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (of course) - Don Giovanni or Requiem Mass
Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony no. 9
Gabriel Fauré - Requiem
Gustav Holst - The Planets
Edward Elgar - The Enigma Variations or Pomp and Circumstance
Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings
Georges Bizet - Carmen (I'd like 'l'Arlésienne' as well but Carmen is just too famous and amazing to not include)
Claude Debussy - Suite bergamesque
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Swan Lake
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Missa Papae Marcelli
Thomas Tallis - Spem in alium
and these will never be added but I would be overjoyed if they were:
Pérotin - Viderunt omnes
Hildegard of Bingen - Ordo virtutum

For writers:
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World (come on, it has to be there!)
George Orwell - Animal Farm (controversially I prefer this to 1984)
Boethius - The Consolation of Philosophy
Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales
Jean de Meun - Le Roman de la Rose (it probably won't be added, but it should be)
Christine de Pizan - Le Livre de la Cité des Dames
Alain Chartier - Le Quadrilogue Invectif
Sir Thomas More - Utopia
Dante Aligheri - The Divine Comedy
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre
Thomas Hardy - Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Emile Zola - Germinal
Victor Hugo - Les Misérables
Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
Primo Levi - If This is a Man
Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart
Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot
Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
Halldór Laxness - Independent People
Primo Levi - If This is a Man
J.R.R. Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings (depending on what the Tolkien estate think of the idea...)

Artists (not sure whether having paintings with nudity would affect the game's rating, though?):
Sandro Botticelli - The Birth of Venus
Michelangelo - David
Leonardo da Vinci - Mona Lisa (of course)
Hieronymus Bosch -The Garden of Earthly Delights
Giuseppe Arcimboldo - Summer or The Librarian
Caravaggio - Supper at Emmaus
Johannes Vermeer - I love The Astronomer, but they're clearly going to pick Girl with a Pearl Earring
J. M. W. Turner - Ovid Banished from Rome
Gustav Klimt - The Kiss
Tamara de Lempicka - Jeune fille au vent
Frida Kahlo - My Dress Hangs There or Self-Portrait with Monkeys
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That's one very awesome list ;-).
 
Le Sage said:
Jean Sibelius would be nice for sure.
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+1 :goodjob:

Also Elias Lönnrot. He was a Finnish physician, philologist and collector of traditional Finnish oral poetry. He is best known for compiling Kalevala, the national epic of Finland, from national folk tales that he gathered during several expeditions in Finland, Russian Karelia, the Kola Peninsula and Baltic countries.
 
Thanks... I think I might have spent too long thinking it up :mischief:

Some of those are bound to be added, some of them will be added with different great works, but sadly a lot of them won't be added at all. That's cool though, as my tastes are very Western-centric and I hope they add more Great Works from around the world...
 
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