Wikipedia:WikiProject Visual arts

WikiProject Visual arts, a sub-project of WikiProject Arts, is a place for Wikipedians to discuss issues and organize information about the visual arts. Like any page on Wikipedia, all are welcome to edit and contribute to this WikiProject.

Rather than try to force information to appear in a uniform way, this WikiProject presents guidelines to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. These recommendations for creating visual arts content are based on various Wikipedia style guides and common practices for writing good articles. Use your own judgment in applying these guidelines, along with other Wikipedia guidelines, to compose articles and be bold.

If you would like to help, see the How to help section below and ask questions on the talk page.

Feel free to add your name to the participants list and/or add the project userbox User WikiProject Visual arts to your user page.

Scope
The project seeks to improve the quality of articles related to the visual arts. The main category that represents articles that fall within the scope of this project is Category:Visual arts (Category:Art has merged into this).

A proposed schema for the various subcategories that would also fall within the scope of this project can be found at WikiProject_Visual_arts/Art_categories.

Sub-projects

 * Performing Wikipedia – Live and performance art

Goals

 * 1) To provide a place to discuss common issues on visual arts related pages.
 * 2) To thoroughly explore the visual arts globally and historically.
 * 3) To ensure all pages meet the standards of Cite sources. See also WikiProject Fact and Reference Check.
 * 4) To manage editing of the Visual Arts portal.
 * 5) To discuss and categorize project pages.

How to help
How you can help depends on your time, resources, and interest. Here are a variety of ideas for contributions ranging from simple to complex. Take a look at the Open Tasks section of this page for more article-specific tasks.

If you'd like to help with any of the below and want assistance, post a query on the talk page. Project members will be glad to help.

Writing and editing

 * Create new articles: A good starting point might be requested visual arts articles.
 * List articles that are needed, but you aren't creating yourself, at requested visual arts articles.
 * If creating pages about artists, see Manual of Style (biographies) and WikiProject Biography.
 * Expand stubs:
 * Choose an article from a visual arts stub subcategory and develop it. (See Article development.)
 * Choose an article from an artist stub subcategory and develop it. (See Article development.)
 * Check references on visual arts pages.
 * Copy-edit pages. Fix up grammar, spelling, links and the like.
 * Advice for the cultural sector is a special page dealing with the concerns of editors who are museum curators, librarians or archivists.

Biographies
Work in tandem with WikiProject Biography/Arts and entertainment

Cleanup
An automatically updated list of articles that have been tagged for cleanup is linked here.

Visual arts portal

 * Maintain and update the visual arts portal. There are no parameters for how frequently things can be updated on the portal. Be bold.
 * Update the selected article.
 * Update the selected picture.
 * Update the did you know section.
 * Complete tasks listed in the Things you can do section. Add new open tasks as relevant. Try to maintain a consistent number of items in each section.

Maintain articles

 * Sort stubs:
 * Move articles from Category:Visual arts stubs to more specific stub categories.
 * Move articles from Category:Artist stubs to more specific stub categories.
 * Manage infoboxes (Please use these judiciously and be conscientious of page layout.)
 * Add artist infoboxes Infobox Artist
 * Add painting infoboxes Infobox Painting
 * Check categorization of existing articles and help organize. (See Categorization and Category:Visual arts)
 * Revert vandalism on this portal and on articles to do with visual arts.
 * Contribute to articles for deletion discussions.
 * Contribute to conversations on articles listed here: Requests for comment/Media, art and literature.

Articles for deletion
It is important to have an input into Articles for deletion. There is now a special page for visual art articles, which needs to be maintained, updated and monitored. It can be found here: WikiProject Deletion sorting/Visual arts. Articles need to be added manually: please add any AfD you want to draw attention to, and also put it on your watchlist.

Images

 * Upload and add images to visual arts pages.
 * Public domain image resources is a great place to start looking for images to add.
 * External links to online galleries/images can also be helpful, especially when free images are not available for upload and copyright violations might be an issue.

Larger tasks

 * Move art images to Wikicommons. Suggestion only. Move eligible (world-wide public domain) art images to Wikicommons
 * Categories.See Portal:Visual_arts/Categories. Categorization ideas Art categories
 * Increasing the representation of visual art outside the Western canon: a task force page lists target articles for improvement or creation, as well as related resources
 * Development. Can we try and get Arts and Crafts Movement at least up to B-Class? The article on this important and influential movement, which dominated the decorative arts in Britain from 1890–1915, should be a lot better than it is. I have added to it but I'd appreciate some collaborators.

Visual arts project

 * Add the project template Visual arts to the talk pages of relevant articles that don't already have one.
 * Join the discussions on the project talk page.
 * Publicize – Inform editors who have displayed interest in visual arts about the project via their talk page.
 * Take a look at the project to-do list and help with listed project-related tasks.

Other

 * Answer requests for comments

Online resources: artworks/art books

 * Guggenheim modern art books for free
 * Paris Musees released digital artworks
 * Art Institute of Chicago released digital images
 * Metropolitan Museum of Art: art works in public domain, 600+ art books to download or view online for free
 * Getty Museum artworks: virtual library to download
 * New York Public Library: released artworks, images, books.
 * Smithsonian Open Access: Artworks, images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo. 3 million images and resources available for open source use as of late 2020

Other

 * WikiProject Visual arts/Art Manual of Style tips on writing articles, and further information
 * Freedom of panorama – copyright on public sculptures etc.
 * http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Licensing Too much information about licensing images on Commons
 * WP:GLAM for Museum etc. professionals. See talk Archive 1 for further discussion on notability of artworks
 * WP:CREATIVE governs notability for artists

Most popular pages

 * Most visited pages: WikiProject Visual arts/Popular pages

Similar WikiProjects

 * Parent: Arts (largely inactive)
 * Aesthetics task force
 * Architecture
 * Animation
 * Color
 * Comics
 * Anime and manga
 * Comic strips
 * Graffiti
 * History of photography
 * Public art
 * Symbolism and Art Nouveau
 * Women artists


 * See also
 * WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Hotlist of Art & Architecture

Participants
New names at top. It's not necessary to list your name here to edit this page or edit related articles. Feel free to display the project userbox on your userpage: User WikiProject Visual arts.
 * User:Steelyphilly - Visual arts and theological training. Also a painter.
 * User:Air on White
 * User:Robbandstra
 * User:MorrisStuff - art historian, Victorian art and design
 * GranCavallo (talk)
 * User:Cinematic Poetry University Professor - NY
 * User:Slacker13
 * User:Laflaneuse
 * User:Zbybasel - Art history, comtemporary art
 * User:DrMedRenArtHistory - University Professor, PhD in medieval and Renaissance art history + teach medieval Islamic art
 * User:Homerethegreat - Art History, School Of Paris, Architecture
 * User:Professor Penguino - Interested in art and art history, amateur artist
 * User:JBeens - Visual artist
 * User:Reykcultura7193 - art researcher, interested in visual arts, art history, and architecture
 * User:KateKabob - art student, interested mostly in contemporary art
 * User:MgSane - interesting to write about art
 * User:Melissa040106 - art history, student
 * User:Wil540_art - photography (1820-today), stone sculpture, and contemporary art
 * User: Ppt91 - Western modern art (19th-20th c.), Eastern European modern art, Socialist Realisms, history of photography
 * User:TheWiki93 - Teenage cartoonist who goes to high school every day. Interest in cartoons and comical strips.
 * User:CobaltSteel
 * User:Lunagrouh Art student, will try to help.
 * User:Audie Scribener Digital artist and professional, with wide-ranging interests and education in the history of visual arts.
 * User:ReffPixels Digital artist and professional Pixel artist, will focus mostly on anything related to computer graphics.
 * User:Bellakine Love Impressionism, studying arts intersection with religion
 * User:Abdul_Muhsy
 * Orson12345 - Love portrait paintings, my favorite artist is Lucas Cranach


 * PenangLion - Chinese art lover.
 * Voltaireloving -Art Librarian
 * Toslash (talk) 19:55, 9 September 2021 (UTC)
 * User:Liam2520 - Art history enthusiast, primarily 19th Century and Victorian art
 * User:ArtistWatch MuseumSurvey
 * User:Tjess20
 * User:Otherart
 * User:Bello Na'im
 * User: InsufficientVespeneGas - Art History Studen - Melbourne Australia
 * User:CohuttaBlue - Artist. North Georgia.
 * User: Noahby
 * User: ArtistAmyKarle1
 * User: ThatLaurelGirl - Art lover
 * User: Witnearionberg - Painter: Realism & Impressionism / Digital Artist
 * User: JordanTimothyJames - Archivist. Primary interest stained glass and architectural/monumental art and related subjects; biographies.
 * User:Thellomerca
 * User:Mysteriumen
 * User:GinnyTonic Modern and Contemporary art, 20th-21st c. primarily in the Americas.
 * User:dorkinglad
 * User:El cid, el campeador
 * User:Isaksenk - focused on 16th-17th C Western European art, particularly female artists and subjects
 * User:Triethylborane - Self-taught photographer/videographer
 * User:Hochithecreator
 * User:BoriquaZurdo - Focus on art and artists from Puerto Rico, Latin America and USA
 * User:Badabara
 * User:Eruditess - art history fan, I volunteer for teaching children about influential artists.
 * User:Sicklemoon - mid to late 20th c. art in America
 * User: Solangelo19 - actor, dancer.
 * User:Interesting009
 * User:Coffeycp - art historian, Latin American art
 * User:Aza24
 * User:Cpfffr
 * User:Orlando the Cat
 * User:GeneralPoxter
 * User:Aroundthewayboy
 * User:MauraWen
 * User:JeBonSer
 * Barbara Page - gallery owner; mixed media artist
 * User:Uberlibris - Australian arts librarian
 * User:Foxtreetop - medical and scientific illustration; comics and sequential art
 * User: Edwardjones76 -esp. Los Angeles contemporary art and
 * User:FencingQueen
 * User:KolArt
 * User:Mduvekot
 * User:Steveow
 * User:Robertgombos - esp. photography related articles and contemporary art.
 * User:Vivsss
 * User:OhioOakTree
 * User:Artchivist1
 * User:Jamesmcardle biographies
 * User:JordiNN
 * User:Webmeister1
 * User:Dharampal Singh
 * User:HarrisonSteam
 * Gkuriger (talk) 18:28, 11 August 2016 (UTC) - interested in writing about exhibitions, biographies, art museums
 * Andy Mabbett, Pigsonthewing - esp. biographies. Also good with templates and Wikidata
 * Seazzy
 * User:Daniel kenneth
 * User:Phantrix: Art student, so interested in(and studying) all forms of visual artworks
 * User:Jscarboro: Interested in contemporary art and artists, painting, feminist artists and African-American artists
 * User:Netherzone
 *  DGG ( talk ) 08:42, 4 March 2016 (UTC) primary interest is in rescuing inadequate or threatened artist  biographies
 * User:Greenadia06: Conservator for wall paintings, interested in painting techniques, art history and art in general.
 * User:Artevida: Greetings from Spain. Interested in Art in general.
 * User:Jamesmcardle:Australian and international photography, women artists, modernism.
 * User:Vivek.bekhabar: Recently I have developed an interest in Visual arts, so reading a lot these days. Happy to contribute here.
 * User:Kwork2
 * User:Jocelyndurrey
 * User:Massimiliano79: Aerospace Engineer and working in the field of screen printing technique and screen printing machines.
 * User:Max roosevelt
 * User:Pelarmian
 * User:STSC
 * User:Xenxax
 * User:Mashkawat.ahsan: Interested in Bangladeshi art. Also art in general & art history.
 * User:Hza a 9
 * User:VickiAnderson: Contemporary visual arts, performance, music and film.
 * User:AminaDiriqsay
 * User:AJK2014: Interest in contemporary art, curating, performance, Southeast Asian and feminist art practice.
 * User:Arthistorygrrl: Primary interests are contemporary art, women artists, and performance
 * User:Cm8587a: Interested in Central American Art
 * User:Rssyng: interested in contemporary practices as well as minimalism and conceptual art, particularly familiar with Donald Judd
 * User:Artchick27
 * User:14GTR
 * User:Hafspajen
 * User:Byrappa
 * User:Scribbleink – interested in the visual arts of France (Impressionism and Post-Impressionism), Japan (wood-block) and India (art history)
 * User:Chrome15
 * User:Artethical
 * User:GreyWinterOwl ask me help if needed
 * User:Amandajm, all visual art, but particularly Renaissance
 * User:iopensa, focus on visual art in Africa (institutions, artists, art scene) and related to Africa (exhibitions, publications, scholars) – contemporary African art.
 * User:Yakikaki
 * User:Turn685
 * User:Philafrenzy
 * User:Xcia0069 – Interested in early modern European art, particularly Italian artist Gianlorenzo Bernini
 * User:Hillbillyholiday
 * User:Global Microscope
 * User:Pcatanese
 * User:Pgboultbee
 * User:WriterArtistDC – Nude (art), Art Modeling, Figure Drawing, Figure Painting
 * User:RussellM
 * User:Reneduchamp Contemporary artists active in France
 * User:Francoisalex2
 * User:Artventure22 • American Art Historian living in Paris researching Modern Art
 * User:Franciselliott • Modern art, conceptual art, artists' books.
 * User:psubhashish
 * User:Karithina
 * User:Gobonobo
 * User:Amadscientist
 * User:Sad_Lil_Artsy_Guy
 * User:Jobrjobr
 * Euartcurator Wide ranging art interests,from Latin to European,Modern,Post Modern,Neo-expressionism etc.
 * Gothicfilm
 * User:Khidekel
 * User:Jamesmcgrey Contemporary artists in America.
 * User:Sionk Particular interest in modern (western) visual art and street art.
 * User:Whiteghost.ink Australian Art and European art of the fin-de-siècle
 * User:LoriLee, Working with the Indianapolis Museum of Art on a model for Wikipedians in Residence and increasing content creation around art history.
 * User:Rorchester European Curator, contemporary art
 * User:Gmcbjames American Ceramists, ceramic art
 * User:SunRiddled Art writers and bloggers, mostly US and UK.
 * User:Babajobu, Asian-American painters
 * User:CaroleHenson
 * User:Chimino – Post-Impressionism & Street Art
 * User:GuzonjinSin
 * User:Korruski
 * User:Rob Myers
 * User:Samil20
 * User:Deltabaryon
 * User:Artiquities
 * User:warrenking interested in contemporary art in San Francisco and New York, especially artist-run initiatives, biographies, and recent history (90s-Present).
 * User:ArtnHistory
 * Sargentprivate (talk) 05:06, 6 June 2010 (UTC) interested in figurative painting, vorticism and contemporary and modern movements.
 * Scriberius (talk) 15:08, 2 June 2010 (UTC) esp. work old masters
 * User:LaNaranja
 * User:JuneGloom07
 * User:Artiquities, working on contemporary art in Britain, Europe and USA.
 * User: Art&concepts contemporary and conceptual art.
 * User:Emiraly Attempting to overhaul several pages and focus on elements and principles of two-dimensional and three-dimensional design.
 * User:Ocarrollcian Focusing on French/European C19 art, European Architecture 1800–1955, Japanese Art and Yoshitaka Amano.
 * User:Vaishal. Interests : minimalism and greenpeace
 * User:Pamela Gardiner Focusing on all forms of visual art and biography.
 * User:Paloma747 Focusing on Abstract Expressionism, and Classical Realism, technique.
 * User:Grhabyt Focusing on Contemporary Art, New media art, and Visual Culture.
 * User:Tshelford Focusing on the art movement Classical Realism.
 * User:RayNorris Concentrating on Indigenous Australian art of all types (e.g. Bark painting)
 * User:ChristianGL Focusing on the old masters and all kinds of classical figurativity.
 * User:Salmon1 Focusing on American abstract and figurative expressionism.
 * User:Bobf All, especially Visual Theatre
 * User:Riwo Printmaking,Painting,Visionary Art,Mandala.
 * User:Sketchee
 * User:Slaviclands Focusing on Slavic arts and artist.
 * User:sparkit Focused on the time since the beginning of the industrial revolution.
 * User:Solipsist
 * Maria_N Focused on Installation art, New media art and British contemporary artists.
 * User:Ham
 * User:DENAMAX
 * Richard T. Focused on Paris 1848–1914, Art Theory/Dada/etcaa and ink on paper.
 * User:Philthecow
 * User:MarcMyWords (kinda new to this, could use some guidance)
 * User:PiCo focused on Art of Australia at the moment
 * Dsmdgold interested in Medieval art especially illuminated manuscripts
 * User:Tyrenius Doing work on contemporary UK art – artists, shows, critics, institutions
 * User:Clubmarx
 * User:Renice
 * User:Annlanding Art History, primarily 20th Century-current, expanding and clean up of existing articles.
 * User:R.P.D. 19 & 20 European art
 * User:camitava Art in general, Art History, Painting materials and techniques
 * User:Johnbod: Old master prints and printmaking generally, with a historical pov
 * User:TonyTheTiger
 * User:Carptrash Mostly American sculpture – but I want to talk about art stubs – or .  .  . ... To stub or not to stub? That is the question.
 * User:Freshacconci Contemporary art in general, and Canadian art and media and film art in particular, with an interest in Modern Art history (1850–1970) as well.
 * User:Cosmopolitancats Practising artist with particular interest in drawing and sketching and associated media – and the overall organisation of information.
 * User:Planetneutral I'd like to focus on better organization of this project; also lesser known Florentine painters
 * User:Jdcollins13
 * User:Joedogthe1st Focusing on tasks in general and American art, Folk Art, Pop Art, Pollock etc.
 * User:Kimon
 * User:Printguy 19th/20th Century American and European original prints/works on paper, also Japanese woodcuts and ancient Chinese ceramics
 * User:LordAmeth – Art of Japan
 * User:Bus stop
 * User:Modernist
 * User:Lighthead Minor help since I'm mostly involved with related Spirituality projects. "Hee-hee.."
 * User:MChew – Japanese arts
 * User:Fanturmandos – Art in general, specifically paintings
 * User:Fenbaud – Art in general; Fauve; Post-war, Modern
 * User:OnlineWall – Art Online, Images, Online Art Retailers and Framers
 * User:Olpl
 * User:Ceoil – My taste is mainly figurative; I particularly like Bacon, Giacometti, Ingres and Caravaggio. On wiki, I enjoy copy editing articles.
 * User:Pádraig Coogan
 * User:Miguelemejia
 * User:Grandpafootsoldier
 * User:Gordonofcartoon general cleanup/sourcing, but particularly working (unsystematically) through Category:United Kingdom painter stubs where I can expand them through ODNB and Times sourcing.
 * User:Platinumbuddha contemporary Australian, medieval, art theory, art historian biographies. Grammar/syntax corrections, bibliographies.
 * User:Ernst Stavro Blofeld I'll be trying to add every Hungarian painter and sculptor to wkipedia. I'll also be adding a few stubs on articles on European paintings – notably the works of Corot
 * user:Attilios
 * User:Underbelly02
 * User:Ethicoaestheticist Contemporary and late twentieth century art.
 * Infiniteawe &emdash; Contemporary art, especially American Modernism and postmodern art.
 * Ramírez72 – Mainly focuses on 19th to 20th Contemporary art of Mexico, Latin America and the United States.
 * User:georgequizbowl08
 * User:Susanlesch – mostly inactive
 * User:Silentaria
 * User:Aminz
 * User:Thaliapap
 * User:William P. Coleman Ancient Greek, Renaissance Italian, Dutch, Impressionism and Post Impressionism, 20th Century
 * user:TicketMan Have somehow found myself creating and expanding artist stubs.
 * user:Pamela Gardiner Sculpture, drawing and contemporary art galleries.
 * User:RiverHockey
 * User:Justizin Plan to cover accuracy, disputes, and improve sources for ancient to modern art history during four semesters, and to continue contributing.
 * user:ShamanDhia
 * user:SuperNeek 20th Century Art and general clear ups.
 * User:Artethical
 * User:Paula clare Ancient art, letter forms and signs; and abstract art from 1900 onwards.
 * User:Sara_USA All forms of visual, especially invention and innovation in visual art, and fine art
 * User:Jpbowen Art galleries/museums and their collections; individual artworks.
 * User:Kafka Liz Diverse interests, currently focusing on mediaeval manuscripts but also including Ancient, Early Christian, and Byzantine periods. Very interested in iconography and funerary art.
 * User:I_live_on_Planet_Art Notable Contemporary Artists and Outsider/Self Taught Aritsts
 * User:Sean.fletcher and User:IsabelReichert Intangible media and the intersection of life and art
 * User:AntonioArch Canadian Art, contemporary art, contemporary Canadian art, art theft, art crime
 * User:Cuprum17 Copper wall sculpture, silversmithing
 * User:Ladyson
 * User:Research Method An Oak Tree. Seeking to improve the academic quality of articles, and challenge unsupported statements.
 * User:ScarTissueBloodBlister
 * User:jlg4104 Early and middle 20th c. modernism. Sourcing. Editing for clarity.
 * User:TravisNygard Working on general improvements of, modern Western art—especially American, pre-Columbian art, the academic discipline, and methodology.
 * User:Chickeninapram
 * User:PoizonMyst
 * User:HansEworth Working on Tudor portraiture and, more broadly, Italian Renaissance Art.
 * User:Littleolive Oil
 * User:Txmod Working on modern and contemporary American art.
 * Harrypotter Situationism
 * User:Junius49, working on graffiti art, street art, illegal art
 * User:Ackees, working on general art, African art, art of the African diaspora
 * User:Mandarax
 * User:Kurtcool2 Working on Renaissance Art, Modern Art, and Classical Art.
 * User:Neon Sky Graphic Design, Computer Art, Printmaking
 * User:Tsbshb American Art
 * User:Uyvsdi, focus on Native American art
 * User:Ender78, focus on Graphic Design, Computer, and New Media Art
 * User:Vejvančický, Czech art
 * User: Simonewharton intern at the Art Gallery of Ontario, working on putting up pages for individual works of art from the permanent collection.
 * User:TakuyaMurata a.k.a. Taku
 * User:Rocco718 Contemporary art
 * User:OR drohowa contemporary artists
 * User:Kwameghana I love the visual arts and the creative arts
 * User:NoJin, ArtLib.cz
 * User:NoJin, ArtLib.cz

Templates
Please add them as you find them, using caution, especially with the larger ones, which may disrupt carefully designed pages.

Artists

 * Infobox artist

Art works

 * Infobox artwork

Image pages

 * Image information art

Navigation aids
See also Category:Arts and culture templates

Cultural periods
Not specific to art
 * Middle Ages sidebar
 * Modernism
 * Renaissance
 * Culture of the United States

Art periods

 * Art history
 * Ancient art history
 * Westernart
 * European art history

Art nationality

 * French art history
 * Japanese art history
 * Russian art movements

Art groups

 * Arte Povera
 * Cubism
 * Dada
 * Federation of British Artists
 * Futurism
 * Group of Seven
 * Grosvenor School
 * Impressionists
 * Stuckism
 * Young British Artists
 * Vorticism

Artists

 * Edward Burne-Jones
 * Henri Matisse
 * Vincent van Gogh
 * El Greco
 * Dante Gabriel Rossetti
 * Andy Warhol