Prompted by thoughts on the Classic Albums thread – i.e. stuff which may be excellent but you don’t fancy hearing it often, if at all – it made me think, what would provide long term contemplative satisfaction if you could the original to lose yourself in at your leisure? I thought a couple of conditions ŵere reasonable – you would have it for 5 years & then return it, you can’t sell it or charge admission, but if it was a whopper ( such as big Picasso) arrangements would be made to make your living space big enough to accommodate it comfortably. At the moment , mine would be View of Delft by Vermeer, just because it would. So would you have a Hopper, a Rothko, a Turner? Or maybe a Lichtenstein, a Picasso or a Cezanne? Perhaps a tearful clown or white horses in the surf are more your bag. Get all cultural & let us in on your inner art appreciator.
