Wikipedia:WikiProject Visual arts/Global visual art taskforce

According to research first published in 2021, Wikipedia gives much more coverage to art and artists in the Western canon than to other artistic traditions. The paper compiles lists of significant artists and masterpieces from different cultures. To help redress the balance, those lists have been added and updated here.

The point of this task force is focus effort on turning red links blue, and improving the existing articles. Feel free to extend the lists with other artists and masterpieces from the relevant culture. In listing artists and masterpieces, we necessarily had to make some arbitrary decisions, so if you know of art and artists that are equally significant to the ones mentioned here, feel free to add them.

The artists should all be notable according to English Wikipedia guidelines, though some are not well documented in English-language sources. The masterpieces should be notable enough for Wikidata, but not necessarily notable enough for Wikipedia (or notable separately from their artists). Some of the links we have given are to help identify an art work and are not necessarily usable as reliable sources for a Wikipedia article. Before starting an article, do your own check that there are sufficient references to establish notability. If you find references that could be used to create a new article, please add them in the final column of the relevant table.

See also the Non-Western art section of Vital articles/Level/5/People/Artists, musicians, and composers. This page can be thought of as an alternative view of articles that should be considered similarly vital.

Use the Related changes link in the left sidebar to see recent edits to these articles.

Resources
Please help expand this list


 * Benezit Dictionary of Artists and Grove Art Online: subscription services but available for free in some UK libraries. Both part of Oxford Art Online which is available through the Wikipedia Library. Benezit links (64,600 of them) and Grove links (23,300 of them) are in Wikidata, which can be used to find topics in either that lack a Wikipedia article.
 * Invaluable.com is an auction site with a database of 500,000 artists. It is paywalled but can be accessed through the Wikipedia Library. 54,000 Invaluable.com person IDs are available through Wikidata. You can add more Invaluable identifiers to Wikidata at Mix'n'Match.
 * Some relevant books that can be previewed through Google Books are linked below in relevant sections.
 * User:Johnbod has assembled some useful lists of references at User:Johnbod with sections on India, China and Japan, Islamic etc.
 * Crotos is a Wikidata- and Commons-driven tool that can be used to explore visual art from thousands of collections.

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• WikiProject Iran

• WikiProject Islamic manuscripts

• WikiProject Japan

• WikiProject Ottoman Empire

Sub-Saharan Africa

 * Google Books: A Companion to Modern African Art
 * Internet Archive books on African Art

Masterpieces
See African art in Western collections

Indigenous Americas

 * Internet Archive books on First Nations art

Artists

 * Other artists lacking an English Wikipedia article found using Wikidata

Wikidata query for Korean and Empire of Japan artists with a Wikipedia article but not in English Wikipedia

Artists
Wikidata query for Ottoman and Turkish artists with a Wikipedia article but not in English Wikipedia

Artists
Another suggestion:

South Asia
The following books have previews or full text viewable in Google Books, though access will depend on your jurisdiction.
 * available full view (in at least some regions) in Google Books
 * in Google Books
 * in Google Books

Artists
Wikidata query with more Mughal artists

Artists
As of 31 August 2022, Wikidata reports more than 400 Iranian painters, sculptors and calligraphers with a Wikipedia article but nothing on English Wikipedia.