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 Wikipedia:WikiProject_Visual_arts/Art_categories.

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 Wikipedia: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.
6. To add articles for the world's murals.
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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 an art 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.

Images

• Upload and add images to visual arts pages. A logical starting point would be the requested art images.
  • 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.

Wikipedia maintenance

• Sort stubs:
  • Move articles from Category:Art 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 {{needs artist infobox}} to the talk pages of artist entries that lack said infobox.
  • Add painting infoboxes {{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.

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.

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.

Open Tasks

Here are some Open Tasks : Article requests: Art of Central America – Claus Bury – Paint thatch – Art horse – Downtown Gallery – Marie Sterner – Isabel Carleton Wilde – Grace Borgenicht – Anita Reuben– Virginia Zabriskie – Beatrice Monti della Corte – Martha Jackson – Bertha Schaefer – Jill Kornblee – Pat Hearn – Gracie Mansion – Andrea Rosen – Marianne Boesky – Mary Sabbatino – Accola Greifen – Janelle Reiring (Metro Pictures Gallery) – Luisa Strina – Shaun Caley Regen, Regen Projects – Rhona Hoffman – Andrea Meislin more... Image requests: Illusionism (art) – Nōami – Étrécissements – Villa Massimo – of art and of artists Pages needing attention: Colin McCahon – Jamaican art – Folk art – Product design – Fiestaware – Monochrome painting (was Meditative art) – Reginald Gray (artist) – Science of photography – Studio art – more... Articles needing expansion: Art education – Art of the Crusades – Decoupage – James Turrell – American Impressionism – Crocheted lace – Sacred art – Art fabrication – Chinese painting Jamaican art – more... Visual arts stubs: Commission (art) – Conté – Sanguine – Post-surrealism – Verdaccio – Luminism (Impressionism) – Biomorphism – more... Artist stubs: Frank Dobson (sculptor) – Niko Pirosmanashvili – more... Art organization stubs: Federal Project Number One – Art colony – Not-for-profit arts organization – Arts centre – more... Get involved in the Wikipedia Visual Arts Project.

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.

Larger projects

• Art Manual of Style. Suggestion only. Develop an Art Manual of Style.

• Move art images to Wikicommons. Suggestion only. Move eligible (world-wide public domain) art images to Wikicommons

• Categories.See Portal:Visual_arts/Categories, Portal_talk:Arts/Categories. Categorization ideas Art categories

Similar WikiProjects

• Parent: Arts

• Architecture
• Comics
  • Anime and manga
  • Comic strips
• Graffiti
• Contemporary Art
• Color
• History of photography
• Sculpture
• Painting

Participants

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: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: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
• Richard T. Focused on Paris 1848-1914, Art Theory/Dada/etcaa and ink on paper.
• User:Philthecow
• User:Cfitzart especially focused on Art of Australia
• 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: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: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:OnlineWall - Art Online, Images, Online Art Retailers and Framers
• User:Ceoil - My taste is mainly figurative; I paticularly like Bacon, Giacometti, Ingres and Caravaggio. On wiki, I enjoy copy editing articles.
• User:Pádraig Coogan
• User:Miguelemejia

Recognized content

Featured articles

• Salvador Dali
• Campbell's Soup Cans

Good articles

• Gettysburg Cyclorama

Did you know (DYK)s

• Triptych, May-June 1973
• The Oxbow

Infoboxes

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

General

Not specific to art

• {{Middle Ages Tall}}
• {{Modernism}}
• {{Renaissance}}
• {{Usculture}}

Art topics

• {{Art history}}
• {{French art history}}
• {{Group of Seven}}
• {{Japanese art history}}
• {{Russianart}}
• {{Westernart}}
• {{Western art history}}

Artists

• {{Infobox Artist}}

Art works

• {{Artwork}}
• {{ArtCutline}}
• {{Mural}}
• {{Painting}}
• {{Sculpture}}

Image pages

• {{Image information art}}

Templates

What to type	What it makes	What it's for
{{Visual arts}}		The project notice designed to be placed in the talk page of any article that fits within the scope of this project.
{{User WikiProject Visual arts}}	This user is a participant in WikiProject Visual arts.	This can be placed on your user page to show that you are a part of this Wikiproject.
{{User:UBX/artlover}}	This user is an art lover.	Just for fun.
{{User Art}}	ARTThis user's favourite subject is Art.	Just for fun.
{{portal|Visual arts}}		To add a link to the Visual Arts portal.
Stubs
{{Art-stub}}		To mark art articles in need of expansion. Adds article to Category: Art stubs. Use more specific stubs whenever possible.
{{Artist-stub}}		To mark artist articles in need of expansion. Adds article to Category: Artist stubs. Use more specific stubs whenever possible.
{{art-org-stub}}		To mark art or artist organization articles in need of expansion. Adds article to Category:Art_organization_stubs.