If you could possess one piece of art or sculpture from human history

sxt

And you couldn't re sell it later to spend on coke and hookers

Which piece of art would you take?


I want that piece of cave wall from 30,000 years where they painted bisons and spear wielding people

Duff

Richard Attenborough's mosquito stick.

ChunkyLover54

'NightHawks' by Edward Hopper or 'The Kiss' by Gustav Klimt

(although knowing me I'd probably end up selling them to pay for coke and hookers)

o1s1n

Judith Beheading Holofernes. Over my fireplace.

Dr Crayfish

One of those Hieronymous Bosch paintings I could stare at them for hours

Timberrrrrrrr

Samantha foxe''s tits

Giacomo McGubbin

I prefer to see everyone possess great works of art in public art galleries and museums.

Realistically, I'd like to have an original Harry Clarke work. Not sure they've been priced into craziness yet.

But no price limits, I think I could stare at a work by Constable or Turner for a long time, hanging in my sitting room. Maybe The Fighting Temeraire.

failinis

I have a lot of artists I admire so I would tend to say more inclined to support public galleries.

Harry Clarke, Egon Schiele, Gerard Dillon and Gustav Klimt, Edgar Degas and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec are a few that jump to mind.
Came close to having a Basil Blackshaw once which never came to be.

Oh.

I thought this was going to mean, which one would I possess, like haunt. And I was going to say Venus de Milo. But I'd be, like, yo, check out my tits. No biggie. Ain't got no arms, though.

The Backwards Man

What's the point of art if you can't sell it?

A nice landscape of the Donegal countryside is all I need

Your Face

Something pretentious.

Canis Lupus

The willy off David.

fatknacker

Tracy Emin's shítty bed would go well in my family home's 'good' room.

osarusan

Whatever I picked, I'd be bored of it after a day.

PirateShampoo

The Rifle that was used to assassinat JFK.

Would be one hell of a conversation piece and probably the most famous gun in history.

Also it would be worth a absolute fortune.

meeeeh

Two fairly different paintings spring to mind: Botticelli's Birth of Venus or Matisse's Blue Nude II.

Pac1Man

Impression of a morning sunrise.

There's a great deal of snobbery in art though. And wine.

If some wine or a piece of art make any your senses "dance while being imprisoned within a silk straight-jacket", we couldn't be friends.

Academic

Just one is hard. But it might be Vermeer’s “Die Malkunst”:
https://www.khm.at/objektdb/detail/2574/

The story behind it:
http://www.khm.at/en/visit/exhibitions/2010/vermeer-the-art-of-painting/

Roger Mellie Man on the Telly

Guernica. Horrific.

lawlolawl

The original copy of Dickbutt.

wil

The Fallen Madonna with the Big Boobies by van Klomp.
Very hard to get your hands on a genuine one.

meeeeh

Roger Mellie Man on the Telly wrote: »

Guernica. Horrific.

It is brilliant.

Speaking of pretentious... I remember years ago there was travel feature about Madrid in Irish Times. The author claimed it depicts horrors of Second World War. The rest of the article was about shopping in Zara and much more accurate.

catbear

The Gordian knot, I'd unravel it just to prove Alexander was an impetuous twat.

Pawwed Rig

The Collossus of Rhodes would look great on my mantelpiece

maudgonner

I like sculpture and I'd probably go for Michelangelo's Pieta.

But I think veiled sculptures are amazing - to be able to capture a sheer, flowing, soft fabric in cold hard marble is something that defies logic, but they did it.

Antonio Corradini's Modesty is probably my favourite. So that would be a close second.

endacl

The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke, by Richard Dadd.. Saw it in a book when I was a little kid, and was absolutely fascinated. I could stare at it for hours. I still could. An unfinished, disjointed product of an unfinished disjointed mind. Strange, and strangely beautiful. Inspired the Freddy Mercury song of the same name.

https://atlanticjaxx.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/el-golpe-del-lec3b1ador-maestro.jpg

Stigura

The Fenn Mk 1 Rabbit Trap (Prototype).

Just gazing at a photo has reduced me to tears.

Chain Smoker

Outside of monetary value, I'd take that $2,000,000 Wu Tang Clan album and destroy the piece of ****.

I mean, isn't the world better off without this load of bollocks in it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Time_in_Shaolin

Deregos.

I would have to opt for a Caravaggio, one of the massive chiaroscuro oil ones, in a huge ornate gilded frame, that would take up the full wall in me sitting room. . . Then I'd probably just get stoned & stare at it all the time & bore the tits off me mates about it.

Until I eventually go completely insane & commited to the nuthouse.

Junkyard Tom

One of those spooky big sculptures they have over on Easter Island. I'd like to have it secretly transported to the top of an Irish mountain so people could say it was aliens that moved it.

Outlaw Pete

I notice the Mr.Screen cinema usher statue has recently disappeared since the Screen's demise was announced.

I hope he's not upside down in some skip some place.

I'd gladly have him

LorMal

Academic wrote: »

Just one is hard. But it might be Vermeer’s “Die Malkunst”:
https://www.khm.at/objektdb/detail/2574/

The story behind it:
http://www.khm.at/en/visit/exhibitions/2010/vermeer-the-art-of-painting/

great choice

notsoyoungwan

The entrance stone at newgrange- that'd look deadly in my back garden

livedadream

if money was no object and having it over my bed wouldnt effect its quality:

Sir Frederic William Burton, R.H.A.

‘The Meeting on the Turret Stairs’

Thargor

livedadream wrote: »

if money was no object and having it over my bed wouldnt effect its quality:

Sir Frederic William Burton, R.H.A.

‘The Meeting on the Turret Stairs’

Why? Genuinely curious, seems like a fairly unremarkable painting.

Ive forgotten the name of the one I would pick, it was an ultra detailed Italian painting I saw a few years ago, it was an audience in a throne room, I think it was a Renaissance painting but the detail was spectacular, as in you could examine paintings within paintings etc, its driving me mad now trying to think of what it was but I always thought of it as my choice if I could pick one masterpiece.

Academic

LorMal wrote: »

great choice

I’ve actually been lucky enough to have seen this in Vienna at the Kunsthistorisches Museum. You almost want to kneel.


Cheers,

Ac

Capt'n Midnight

Too many choices

The Garden of Earthly Delights - Hieronymus Bosch, it's unreal.


The Great Wave off Kanagawa, better still a copy of the complete set of 36 views of Mount Fuji by Hokusai

Fleawuss

Good thread. Starry night over the Rhone by Van Gogh. It gets to me.

Rented Mule

I'd like to have the Strat that Hendrix burned at Monterey.

Witchie

ChunkyLover54 wrote: »

'NightHawks' by Edward Hopper or 'The Kiss' by Gustav Klimt

The Kiss is my favourite art piece. I have a large print off it and a beautiful notebook. It's the colours, they make me feel alive.

But since you snagged it I will take Degas' "The little dancer" sculpture. It is so stunning I nearly wept in it's presence but had to take photos of my friend's 17 year old daughter copying her pose so didn't get to cry.

Muahahaha

Would pick Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach by Dali, could spend all day looking at that painting. Though having the Statue of David in your garden would also be pretty nice too.

Esel

PirateShampoo wrote: »

The Rifle that was used to assassinat JFK.

Would be one hell of a conversation piece and probably the most famous gun in history.

Also it would be worth a absolute fortune.

Which one?

Autonomous Cowherd

The Pyramid of Cheops, from the Giza Plateau. Just installed out there in the boggy field.

Sleepy

Smart answer: Michaelangelo's "The Creation of Adam". The Cistine Chapel would make a great weekend retreat

Something I could actually hang in my own home? It'd have to be Van Gogh's "Cafe Terrace at Night". I could genuinely stare at it for hours.