why no horror movies? i dont get it
the history of art would be a lot diferent
Breugel and the entire Breugel family would have somewhat diferent motifs
possibly some later schools would go trough the subjects Bosch worked on
the details and stile of Bosch was definitly unique, but the general subjects were mostly comon, as was the technique (althou i think he made some developments of his own do)
still he did them in a remarcable way from a fascinating point of view
but that does not mean sooner or later same motifs are not repeated, olnly in a diferent way
later developments such as the surealists would also have some divergence
and so on
but i still dont get the no horror movies thing
of the other artists you could imagine Giotto would have a serious effect
as well as most of the big Renesance names
anny of the main impresionists would change something
Dega or Sezane especially
then ofcourse the more you get into the 20th century the more each of the big names counts
Picasso, Maljevich, Kandinsky, Mondrian all the ones you learn in school, especially the ones forming schools or movements or writing theoretic work
no Melies would change a huge deal
now that might mean no horror movies, but not that likely
possibly much later science fiction
no futurism would mean a lot, even politically, Marinetty geting run ower by a car before he gets somwhere
Griffith, Dziga Vertov, Lang, Renoir, Welles, Godard, Ford any one of those and manny others might make a huge diference, the farther back they go the more influence they had as the first ones basically layed the foundations for other filmakers
Beuis and definitley Duchamp
then people like Lucas and Spilberg definitly, Monthi Pithons, Linch
Disney
Tex Avery
practically all of the early comic artists, again the earlier on the more important, like Mckay, but also Moore, Moebius etc..
the large numbers of people working on indipendant animation, especially the ones inventing new methods and technologies
combinations of people too, like if Giger and Linch never got together there would be no Alien
no conceptualists/postconceptualists/arte povera would do alot damage
eventually you get deep in the 80is and 90is and nothing really matters individually theres such hyperproduction
and yes one that can be said would truly change something is winsor McCay his animated short film Sinking of Luisitania is said by some to be one of the main reasons for popular suport of America entering WWI, as it was shown all ower the nation, more or less as propaganda
not to mentio his role in early animation
im guessing theres hundreds of examples like that, even more direct