The best artist who ever lived?

[SteveO]

Speaking of Neanderthals, I often wondered how one could make a guitar from the forest? The strings would be a problem I would think!

Nor did your Beethoven etc....
If you want to get specific and down to the nitty gritty of originators of music....
The true originators of music would be the Neanderthal peoples who first tapped sticks and stones together to make rudimentary tribal beats!!

As for artists we can go back to the Australian Aboriginals whom have the oldest existing cave/rock paintings on Earth which date back 30,000 plus years!