Who are your top three artists of all time? Mine are (in order)

[Lindsey]

John Lennon
Kirk Cobain
Bono

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear Lindsey...

Here are mine:

Sir Lawrence Olivier
John Lennon
Kenneth Branaugh (not sure of the spelling)

Funny.....all are Brits.

:hi:

[Ptah]

2. Tough to name just three

Benny Goodman

Louis Armstrong

Dave Bruebeck

[abq e streeter]

3. Springsteen ,Dylan and The Clash

with The Beatles, The Beachboys and The Temptations just a notch below.

[Arctic Dave]

4. Leonardo Da Vinci, Beethoven, Shakespeare.

Yeah, old school and stogy but you have to give props to the masters.

[bluesbassman]

5. Can I have five from different disciplines?

John Steinbeck - Literature

Ansel Adams - Photography

Spencer Tracy - Film

Jimi Hendrix - Music

Leonardo da Vinci - Painting, Sculpture, and just about everything else. :)

[Lindsey]

6. I was referring to musicians but that's a great idea to add other

disciplines:

Man, I'll have to add quite a bit more but couldn't possible list them all:

Agree with John Steinbeck, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Charles Dickens, Emily Bronte, Jane Austen and too many more to mention..

Also agree with Spencer Tracy and have to add Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, Gregory Peck, Clark Gable, Kathryn Hepburn, Audrie Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman (sticking w/the old timers) and way too many more to list

Monet, van Gogh, Leonardo Da Vinci. Georgia O'Keefe and way too many more to list

[bluesbassman]

7. All excellent choices.

I wasn't sure if your intention was musicians only as you said "artists", so I took the liberty of giving my favorites from those categories.

"Artist" is a really broad term though. I feel that there are "artists" in just about every human endeavor. Sadly, most never get anywhere near the recognition they deserve.

Cool thread, I'm looking forward to seeing who others regard highly.

[jobycom]

12. Oooo, I want to play this one, too.

Literature--Ernest Hemmingway
Film--Meryl Streep
Art--Claude Monet (used to be Van Gogh, but right now it's Monet.)
Sculpture--Michaelangelo
Animation--Miyazaki

[blogslut]

8. in order

Miro
Seurat
Dali

:)

[tinymontgomery]

9. I can't put any in order

all depends on my mood

Dylan
Lennon
Garcia
Hendrix
Morrison

Etc

[jobycom]

10. Is that Kurt's brother?

[jobycom]

11. Idunno. Let's see, Marvin Gaye, Jimi Hendrix, Freddie Mercury, maybe.