Wikipedia:WikiProject Visual arts/Art Manual of Style
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This is a draft, or a proposal or working notes or suggestions or whatever. It is not policy. Please add what you know or want to know about working with visual arts articles
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[edit] External resources for writing about art
- http://www.skidmore.edu/academics/arthistory/paperpg/index.html
- http://www.collegeart.org/caa/publications/AB/ABStyleGuide.html
[edit] Helpful wikipedia links
[edit] When and how to use infoboxes, and what to avoid.
[edit] Images of art
- Before you upload an image of art, know the following:
- The source of the image. Usually the URL from which you downloaded it.
- Who is the artist(s)?
- The name of the piece?
- When was the piece completed?
- What are its dimensions?
- What is the medium (oil and canvas/marble/mixed media...)?
- Where is it displayed?
- Copyright status - Is it copyrighted? By whom? If it is copyrighted and not by yourself, prepare a fair use statement.
- Upload the image.
- Include all of the above information when uploading or add it to the image page after you've uploaded the file.
- Using the {{Image information art}} template for the above information formats the data easily.
- Add the image to an article.
- Use regular wiki markup. See Extended image syntax for syntax rules. Use the thumbnail parameter and write a caption that includes information about the work.
- Guidelines on what to include and how to format it, just one external example, http://www.collegeart.org/caa/publications/AB/ABStyleGuide.html.
[edit] Example
Enter:
[[Image:Francisco de Goya y Lucientes 054.jpg|thumb|[[Francisco Goya]]. ''Charles IV of Spain and His Family''. 1800-1801. 280 × 336 cm. Oil on canvas. [[Museo del Prado]], [[Madrid]].]]
Result:
[edit] Available templates
- {{Artwork}}
- {{ArtCutline}}
- {{Painting}}
- {{Sculpture}}
- {{Infobox Artist}}
- {{Image information art}} - for image pages
Galleries - what's the visual arts project take on galleries?
[edit] Image resources
[edit] Useful external resources
- The Bridgeman Art Library Image Search - finding the current location of art works and details about them (museum, size, date created, etc.)
- artcyclopedia.org - search to locate resources about an artist
- ArtLex art dictionary - definitions of terms
- The Getty artist lookup - aid to preferred artist name and notability
[edit] Notes
Capitalizing the names of art movements
- Capitalization of art movements and art style name.
- A style guide at zeal.com suggests using a dictionary to determine capitalization. However, dictionaries vary on art movement/style capitalization. (See User:Sparkit/capitalization.) The Wikipedia Manual of Style does not touch on art movements and styles in particular, but implies that wikipedia style is to use lower case. Bringing us back again to using a dictionary. Thus, the final questions are; Which dictionary? What to do when dictionaries do not agree with one another?
- http://www.collegeart.org/caa/publications/AB/ABStyleGuide.html College Art Association style guide for Art Bulletin says,
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- In general, sharply delimited period titles are capitalized, whereas large periods and terms applicable to several periods are not: e.g., Archaic, Baroque, Early and High Renaissance, Early Christian, Gothic, Greek Classicism of the fifth century (otherwise, classicism), Imperial, Impressionism, Islamic, Mannerist, Middle Ages, Neoclassicism for the late-eighteenth-century movement (otherwise, neoclassicism), Post-Impressionism, Pre-Columbian, Rococo, Roman, Romanesque, Romantic period, Xth Dynasty, antique, antiquity, classicism (see above), medieval, modern, neoclassicism (see above), postmodern, prehistoric, quattrocento.
