ollethegreat
Warlord
wich great artist writer or musician would you want in bnw?
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?
Standard copyright lasts 70 years after the creator's death, so no Picasso, Dali, Joyce or Thomas. Also no Munch, Mondrian, Orwell or Huxley.
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
Jean Sibelius would be nice for sure.
I'm really surprised no-ones mentioned it yet...