Persuade us that something will be lost if we only have photographs of those paintings.
no. i include them because they are my favourites, not because i think they are the best.
losing them forever would be a shame, but it is a subjective opinion, not an objective one 
how could one convince another of that, anyway?
May I substitute Hopper’s Gas for Nighthawks? http://www.artchive.com/artchive/H/hopper/gas.jpg.html
I’m mighty partial to Grant Wood’s Fall Plowing. And let’s tuck along a Winslow Homer.
I’d like to bring the works of Akseli Gallen-Kallela. Can’t choose between the nature scenes (Great Black Woodpecker) or Kalevala scenes (Lemminkainen’s Mother) or the Symposium, featuring a very drunk young Sibelius. So heck, let’s bring them all!
If you can get the Buster Brown restroom compartment from Gay Deceiver, I would also like to add Gallen-Kallela’s Espoo studio, Tarvaspää, for my own personal residence. I love that place.
A moment’s thought will reveal that that particular Gay Deceiver feature is actually in Oz and thus I ain’t going in it.
You don’t ever need to enter that part of the ship. Your minions can do all the loading and unloading.
What? No love for Thomas Kincade, Painter of Light™???!!!
Sorry, couldn’t resist. I’m leaving now before the mob attacks.
Thank god, someone finally got around to saving a Magritte. I thought I was going to have to bring one aboard myself.
American Gothic.
“What?! That hackneyed cliche?”
Yes, that hackneyed cliche. Exactly why it needs to be preserved. In reproduction, it is trite and simplistic. See it in person, though - as you Chicagoland Dopers can do at the Art Institute - you discover why it’s a cliche; it’s powerful and original and moving.
Nighthawks. Same reason.
A Winslow Homer, to illustrate how America saw itself; a Turner, to do the same for England; a Watteau for France.
And finally, I don’t care how many Mondrians or Rothkos we have to leave behind, I’m grabbing Raphael’s Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione (fotopedia.com - contact with domain owner | Epik.com), if only for the humanity sparkling in the sitter’s eyes.
Those are damn good eyes.
You ought to see it in person. It’s simply amazing.
(It’s in the Louvre, by the way, so you probably could, with much less hassle than us 'Murkin Dopers…)
By the way, SciFiSam, you want to impress people - especially female people - with love poetry? Try “Love is not all”, by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Seriously, this is the literary equivalent of a roofie - dropping on some poor girl constitutes date rape.
Can we make sure to burn all of Warhol’s stuff? Just for good measure.
Picasso for sure… Guernica AND Les Demoiselles d’Avignon…
But, interestingly enough, no mention of my 2nd fav, the one and only, Dali… I mean, there’s got to be something worth keeping under OP conditions…
Nope. I already called for some Warhol to be included. Anybody who would include cave drawings is in no position to bag on Andy.
It’s Lascaux! :mad:
I was gonna suggest them.
I nominate El Greco’s The Opening Of The Fifth Seal.
Also the entire Thomas kincade collection.
Mourning for Icarus by Draper
The Kelpie by Draper
Winter at Niagara Falls by Sebron
The Basil Gogos collection