1000 greatest artworks: Do you agree with our choice? | Art and design

We chose our all-time favourite artworks based on personal emotion so inevitably So which treasures would you include

What are the greatest 1000 works of art in the world? Who are the greatest artists in the history of humanity? The Guardian’s visual arts writers have the cockiness to present, today and all next week, our choice. If you agree entirely with it … well, good for you.

But that seems unlikely as we set out to be subjective instead of drily objective: to favour passion over banality. All the writers involved are championing art that they, personally, love. This means there are exclusions – perhaps some rather obvious ones – and the reason is likely to be that no one cared enough about such-and-such a widely praised artist, when it came to the crunch, to write about their work. Which is one challenge for you: can you find words of praise for works of art we failed to even mention?

Since the list was compiled, I’ve lost count of the works I can’t believe I didn’t include. But you are bound to have enthusiasms for art and artists that never came near our considerations. Perhaps entire cultures and traditions have been left out. I don’t want to sound too apologetic here. I think the Guardian’s 1000 artworks to see before you die amounts to a newspaper doing its own world art encyclopedia, and I really believe we have made a good job of it.

In covering all art from cave painting to now, it is easy to fall into the trap of blandness, which can teeter on dishonesty. We’ve championed the great from every place and time, instead of just producing token numbers and a false balance. The view of art this list takes is anything but Eurocentric, yet it avoids a by-the-numbers list of what “should” be included. But … that also means annoying some of the people, some of the time. So here is the place to register that annoyance – or point to additional wonders of human creation.