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

sxt · 29-08-2016 10:48PM #1

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 · 29-08-2016 10:49PM

Richard Attenborough's mosquito stick.

ChunkyLover54 · 29-08-2016 10:54PM

'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 · 29-08-2016 10:55PM

Judith Beheading Holofernes. Over my fireplace.

Dr Crayfish · 29-08-2016 10:55PM

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

Timberrrrrrrr · 29-08-2016 10:56PM

Samantha foxe''s tits

Giacomo McGubbin · 29-08-2016 10:57PM

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

29-08-2016 11:00PM

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 · 29-08-2016 11:06PM

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.

29-08-2016 11:06PM

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 · 29-08-2016 11:09PM

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 · 29-08-2016 11:16PM

Something pretentious.

Canis Lupus · 29-08-2016 11:29PM

The willy off David.

fatknacker · 29-08-2016 11:33PM

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

osarusan · 29-08-2016 11:34PM

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

PirateShampoo · 29-08-2016 11:35PM

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 · 29-08-2016 11:35PM

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

Pac1Man · 29-08-2016 11:41PM

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 · 29-08-2016 11:52PM

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 · 30-08-2016 12:08AM

Guernica. Horrific.

lawlolawl · 30-08-2016 12:11AM

The original copy of Dickbutt.

wil · 30-08-2016 12:17AM

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

meeeeh · 30-08-2016 12:17AM

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 · 30-08-2016 12:19AM

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

Pawwed Rig · 30-08-2016 12:21AM

The Collossus of Rhodes would look great on my mantelpiece

maudgonner · 30-08-2016 12:26AM

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 · 30-08-2016 12:34AM

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 · 30-08-2016 01:21AM

The Fenn Mk 1 Rabbit Trap (Prototype).

Just gazing at a photo has reduced me to tears.

Chain Smoker · 30-08-2016 01:44AM

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. · 30-08-2016 01:55AM

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 · 30-08-2016 02:32AM

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.

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

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