Terms to think/talk about your and all art

This article is very lengthy so here is the link for the article on my other blog -


https://ulrichdebalbian.wordpress.com/2015/11/16/terms-to-thinktalk-about-your-and-all-art/

I already posted about the Art Genome Project months ago. I post here information,
not because I think it is absolute truth carved in stone, but consider it to be a useful and
handy tool to think and talk about art, one's own and all art.

Wikipedia says about it -
The Art Genome Project is the search technology behind Artsy.

The Art Genome Project's search technology is the product of an ongoing art-historical study—undertaken by a team of contributors with art-historical backgrounds at Artsy—seeking to define the characteristics which distinguish and connect works of art, architecture, ancient artifacts and design.[1]

Its primary aim is to provide Artsy users dynamic search categories and explain similarities among art and artists. Currently, there are 1000+ “genes” (i.e. attributes of art) in the project’s taxonomy, including art-historical movements, subject matter, and formal qualities.[2][3] These genes are the product of Artsy’s team and their engagement with (and feedback from) the museums, galleries, curators, critics and art historians present on Artsy’s platform.

There are two general parts of the project: 1) Conceiving and defining such characteristics, referred to as “genes,” and 2) Applying these genes to artists and artworks—creating “genomes” for both—for the artsy.net [4] site.

Importantly, unlike tags, which are binary, genes are applied with values ranging from 0 to 100.[5][6] The value indicates the degree of relevance of a gene to an artist or work of art. While not seen by users, such gene values account for the strength of a relationship between artists and artworks. It also enables similarity to be expressed in a more nuanced way[7] than it might be with just tags because one can weigh various attributes of an artist or work of art to establish which might be the most or less important. Furthermore, such nuance allows for matching potential collectors with artworks based on their tastes and preferences.[8][9]

Artsy’s “genes” create various opportunities for discovering and learning about the artist and artworks. If users search for an artist, they can see “related” artists and if they search for an artwork, they can see “related” artworks. Genes (with definitions) also appear on their own pages and provide the backbone for Artsy’s Browse page.

The Art Genome Project provides metadata for search (and similarity) results based on the principles of information retrieval (TF/IDF) and presents results in a UX-driven search product.

Matthew Israel, an art historian, is the Director of The Art Genome Project.[10]
The Art Genome Project and Other Taxonomies for Artwork

Art historians, libraries and image archives have long used classification systems, art cataloging standards or metadata, and created taxonomies, such as The Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus[15] to systematize the description of artworks. Classification is one of the major foundations of the discipline of art history.[16]

Most college and university art history surveys are based on such an idea of classification, to provide students with a way of grasping the history of art and a jumping-off point for more focused research. Unlike other types of classification, The Art Genome's taxonomy was designed for the purposes of establishing similarities between artists and artworks.[17]
Genes versus Tags

In the words of Matthew Israel, Director of The Art Genome Project, “Genes are not tags — though we have many tags on the site — because tags are binary (something is either tagged “dog” or not). Genes, in contrast, can range from 0-100, thus capturing how strongly a gene applies to a specific artist or artwork. This nuanced connection between works of art is impossible with a simple tagging mechanism.”[18]

Importantly, The Art Genome Project does incorporate over 6000 tags for content (iconography) in artwork as well as certain materials and mediums, which do not need the nuance of genes.[19]

https://www.artsy.net/categories

The Art Genome Project is the classification system and technological framework that powers Artsy. It maps the characteristics (we call them “genes”) that connect artists, artworks, architecture, and design objects across history. There are currently over 1,000 characteristics in The Art Genome Project, including art historical movements, subject matter, and formal qualities. Read articles by The Art Genome Project, or explore our categories below.

Featured Categories
https://www.artsy.net/gene/spaces-of-the-art-world
https://www.artsy.net/gene/the-fantastic

Subject Matter

All Categories A–Z
0-9

'85 New Wave
1000 - 1400
15th Century
16th Century
17th Century
18th Century
1900 - 1917
1918 - 1939 (Interwar)

1940s-1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
19th Century
19th Century American Art
19th Century American Paintings and Works on Paper

19th Century German Realism
2000-present
20th Century Art
20th Century Design
500 - 1000

A

Aboriginal Art
Abstract Art
Abstract Expressionism
Abstract Landscape
Abstract Painting
Abstract Photography
Abstract Sculpture
Abstract versus Figurative
Action Painting
Adolescence
Advertising and Brands
Aerial View
Africa
African Diaspora
Afrofuturism
Album, Folio and Fan Formats
Allegory
Allover Composition
Altarpiece
Altered and Substituted Canvases
Aluminum
American Impressionism
American Mid-Century Design
American Modernism
American Prints 1880-1950
American Realism
American Regionalism

American Sculpture 1830-1950
American Studio Craft Movement
American Works on Paper 1880-1950
Americana
Ancient
Ancient Egypt
Andes Region (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela)
Angular
Animal Portrait
Animals
Animation
Anthropomorphism
Antiquity as Subject
Appropriation
Arabesque/Scroll
Arabic/Farsi Calligraphy
Archaeological Object
Architecture
Architecture in Art
Architecture's Effects
Armchair
Arms and Armor
Arrivals/Departures
Art Brut
Art Deco
Art Informel
Art Nouveau

Art Since 2000
Art That Plays With Scale
Art and Technology
Art in Art
Art of Burma
Art of Tonga
Art of the 1960s
Art of the 1990s
Art of the Congo
Art of the Ivory Coast
Art of the Upper Paleolithic
Arte Povera
Artist as Ethnographer
Artists' Books
Arts and Crafts Movement
Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
Asante Art
Ashcan School
Assemblage
Asymmetrical
Atmospheric Landscapes
Attenuated Figure
Australia and New Zealand
Austria
Automatism
Aztec Art

B

"Bad Painting"
Bamileke Art
Barbizon School
Baroque
Bathers
Bauhaus
Bay Area Figurative Art
Bed
Bedrooms and Bathrooms
Beijing Artists
Beijing East Village
Belgium
Bench

Bengal School of Art
Benin Art
Bentwood
Berlin Artists
Bible Story
Biomorphic
Black Arts Movement
Black Mountain College
Black and White
Black-and-white Photography
Blurred
Body Art
Body Parts

Bone
Bowl
Brazil
Bright/Vivid
Bronze
Brooklyn Artists
Brutalism
Buddhist Art and Architecture
Bulbous
Burned/Charred
Byzantine Art

C

CalArts
California Art
Calligraphic
Cambodian Art
Camera Obscura
Canada
Capitalist Realism
Caravaggesque
Cardboard
Caribbean
Caricature / Parody
Carving
Caucasus
Ceiling Light
Celebrity
Celtic Art
Central America
Central Asia
Ceramic
Ceremonial Object
Chair
Chaise Longue
Chalk
Chance
Cheyenne Art
Chiaroscuro
Chicago Imagists
Chicano Art
Childhood
China
Christian Art and Architecture
Chrome-Plated
Cinematic
Circus/Carnival
City Scenes
Cityscape

Classical Figure
Classical Mythology
Clock
Close-Up
Cluj School
CoBrA
Collage
Collecting and Modes of Display
Collective History
Color Field Painting
Color Gradient
Color Photography
Color Theory
Columns and Totems
Comic/Cartoon
Computer-Aided Manufacturing
Conceptual Art
Concrete
Concrete Art
Conflict
Constructivism
Consumerism
Contemporary African Art
Contemporary Archaeological
Contemporary Art
Contemporary Asian Art
Contemporary British Art
Contemporary Canadian Art
Contemporary Ceramics
Contemporary Chinese Art
Contemporary Conceptualism
Contemporary DIY
Contemporary Design
Contemporary Fact versus Fiction
Contemporary Faux Naïf
Contemporary Feminist

Contemporary Figurative Drawing
Contemporary Figurative Painting
Contemporary Glass
Contemporary Gothic
Contemporary Graphic Realism
Contemporary Grotesque
Contemporary Indian Art
Contemporary Latin American Art
Contemporary Middle Eastern Art
Contemporary Modernist-Type Photography
Contemporary Participation
Contemporary Photography
Contemporary Pop
Contemporary Portrait Painting
Contemporary Portrait Photography
Contemporary Re-creations
Contemporary Realist Portraiture
Contemporary Scandinavian Art
Contemporary Surrealistic
Contemporary Traces of Memory
Contemporary Traditional Painting
Contemporary Turkish Art
Contemporary Vintage Photography
Contrapposto
Craftsmanship and Design
Creased/Crinkled/Wrinkled
Crime
Cross-Cultural Dialogue
Cuba
Cubism
Cultural Commentary
Curvilinear Forms
Cut/Ripped
Cynical Realism

D

Dada
Danube School
Dark
Dau Al Set
De Stijl
Decay
Deconstructivism
Deep Time
Delicate Materials
Dense Composition
Design

Design/Architecture Study
Desk
Diaristic
Die Brücke
Digital Culture
Digital Print
Digital as Manual
Dining Table
Disaster
Divisionist
Documentary Photography

Documents and Documentation
Door
Door Hardware
Dotted
Downloadable Images
Drawing
Dreams / Altered States of Consciousness
Dusseldorf School of Photography
Dutch and Flemish
Dynamism

E

Early Medieval Art
Early Renaissance
Earth Tones
East Asian Calligraphy
East Germany
East Village Art
Eastern Africa
Eastern Europe
Eastern Zhou Dynasty
Edo Art
Egypt
Embossed Paper

Emerging Art
Emerging Design
Emphasis on Linear Perspective
En plein air
Enamel
Encaustic
Endurance Art
Engaged with European Old Masters
Engaged with Traditional African Art
Engaged with Traditional Chinese Art
Engaged with Traditional Japanese Art
Engaged with Traditional Korean Art

Engagement with Mass Media
Engineering/Construction and Design
Equestrian
Erased and Obscured
Erotic
Etching/Engraving
Etruscan Art
Expressionism
Extreme Angle
Extruded Design
Eye Contact

F

Face
Family
Fashion Design and Wearable Art
Fashion Photography
Fauvism
Feminist Art
Fertility/Pregnancy/Birth
Figurative Art
Figurative Painting
Figurative Sculpture
Figure Study
Figures in Nature
Figures of the Art World

Film/Video
Flatness
Flatware
Floor Lamp
Flora
Fluxus
Focus on Joints/Connections
Focus on Materials
Focus on the Social Margins
Folded Planes
Folk Art
Food
For Children

Found Objects
Fractal-like / Kaleidoscopic
Fragmented Geometry
France
French Design
Frontal and Straight-On Perspective
Funerary/Commemorative Object
Funk Art
Furniture
Futurism

G

Gemstone
Gender
Generative Art
Geometric
German Expressionism
Germany
Germany, Austria and Switzerland
Gestural
Glamour
Glass & Ceramics
Glass Objects
Glass as Material

Glitch Aesthetic
Glittery
Globalization
Gold
Gold Leaf
Gothic Art
Graffiti/Street Art
Grand Manner
Graphic Design
Greece
Greek Art and Architecture
Greek and Roman Art and Architecture

Grid
Grotesque
Group Material
Group Portrait
Group Zero
Group f/64
Group of Objects
Group of People
Group of Portraits
Guatemalan Art
Gutai

H

Han Dynasty
Handscroll
Hanging Scroll
Happenings
Hard-Edged
Harlem Renaissance
Hatching
Haze

Heian Period
Hellenistic Art
High Renaissance
Highly Ornamented
Himalayan Art
Hindu Art and Architecture
History Painting
Hopi Art

Hudson River School
Hugs and Kisses
Human Figure
Humor
Hyperrealism

I

Iban Art
Iconic Works of Art History
Identity Politics
Igbo (Ibo) Art
Illustration/Art
Imaginary Creatures
Imitated Material
Immersive
Impasto
Implied Narrative
Impressionism
Improbable Physics
India
Individual Portrait

Indonesian Art
Industrial Design/Product Design
Industry
Infographics and Diagrams
Ink-and-Wash Painting
Inlay
Installation
Institutional Critique
Intaglio
Intentionally Exposed Canvas
Interactive
Interiors
Interlaced Bodies
International Style

Intersectionality
Intricately Sculpted
Iran
Iraq
Iridescence/Opalescence
Irregular Curvilinear Forms
Irregular Linear Forms
Islamic Art and Architecture
Isolation/Alienation
Israel
Italian Design
Italy
Ivory

J

Japan
Japanese Photography

Japonisme
Jewelry

K

Kanō School
Kinetic Sculpture

Kitsch
Korea

Kushan Empire

L

Laminated
Land Art
Landscape
Landscape Photography
Language
Large Brushstrokes/Loose Brushwork
Large-Scale Photography
Large-Scale Sculpture
Late 19th Century
Latin America and the Caribbean

Latin American Art
Layered Images
Leisure
Light Art
Light and Space Movement
Light as Subject
Lightbox
Lighting
Line, Form and Color
Linear Forms

Lithograph
London Artists
Long Distance and Deep Distance
Long Exposure
Los Angeles Artists
Love
Luminism

M

Machines
Madonna and Child
Mail Art
Manipulated Photography
Mannerism
Manuscript
Maps/Networks
Maranao Art
Marble
Marbleized
Masonry Construction
Math
Mayan Art and Architecture
Mbole Art
Medical/Health
Medieval Art
Meiji Art
Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia
Mende Art
Mesopotamian Art
Metal

Metallic
Mexican Muralism
Mexico
Middle Africa
Middle East
Migration
Mimicking Ruined Materials
Ming Dynasty
Miniature and Small-Scale Paintings
Minimalism
Minoan Art
Mirror
Mirrored
Mixed-Media
Moche Art
Model/Maquette
Modern
Modern Photography
Modern and Contemporary Design
Modern/Impressionist Art
Modernizing of Traditional Technique

Modes of Transportation
Molecular
Mono-ha
Monochromatic
Monochrome Painting
Monotype/Monoprint
Mortality
Mosaics
Mourning and Commemoration
Movement
Mughal Art
Multiple Exposure
Multiple Screens
Multiple Styles
Murals and Wall Drawings
Musical Instrument
Mutated Body
Mycenaean Art
Myth/Religion

N

Nabis
Narrative
Native American, First Nations, and Alaska Native Art
Natural Fibers
Nature
Nautical
Negative Image
Neo-Conceptualism
Neo-Concrete Art
Neo-Dada
Neo-Expressionism
Neo-Geo

Neo-Impressionism
Neo-Plasticism
Neoclassicism
Net Art
Neue Sachlichkeit
New American Color Photography
New American Documentary Photography
New British Sculpture
New Leipzig School
New Topographics
New York Artists
New York School

Nineteenth Century French Realism
Non-Functional Design
Northern Africa
Northern Renaissance
Northern and Southern Dynasties
Nostalgia
Nouveau Réalisme
Nude
Nul Group

O

Objets de Vertu
Obsolescence
Oil Painting
Oil on Copper
Oil on Panel
Oku Art

Old Master Drawings and Prints
Old Masters
Op Art
Open Form Sculpture
Organic Material
Orientalism

Orphism
Ottoman Art
Outdoor Art
Outer Space
Outsider Art

P

Painting
Pakistan
Panorama
Papua New Guinea Art
Paris Artists
Parties and Celebrations
Passage
Pastel
Pastel Colors
Patinated/Oxidized/Verdigris
Pattern and Decoration
Patterns
People at Home
Performance Art
Performing Arts
Personal Histories
Personal Writing Systems
Personification
Phoenician Art
Photogram
Photograph as Material
Photographic Source
Photographs of Surfaces
Photography
Photojournalism
Photomontage

Photorealistic
Picassoesque
Pictorialism
Piles/Stacks
Pittura Metafisica
Pixelated
Plastic
Pointillism
Political
Political Event
Political Figure
Political Minimalism
Political Pop
Polychrome Sculpture
Pop Art
Popular Culture
Porcelain
Portrait
Portraits without a Face
Portugal
Post-'70s Ego Generation
Post-Impressionism
Post-Internet Art
Post-Painterly Abstraction
Post-War American Art
Post-War European Art

Post-World War I European Classicism
Post-World War II School of Paris
Post-war French Design
Poster
Postminimalism
Postmodern Architecture & Design
Poured
Pre-Columbian Art
Pre-Impressionism/Old Masters
Pre-Raphaelites
Pre-World War II School of Paris
Precisionism
Prehistoric
Primary Abstraction
Primary Colors
Printed Matter
Prints
Process Art
Progressive Artists' Movement
Provocative
Psychedelic
Pulled/Scraped
Purism

Q

Qing Dynasty

R

Racial and Ethnic Identity
Radiating Lines
Raw vs Finished
Recycled
Reduced-Scale Architecture
Reflections
Reinforced Concrete Construction
Related to Fashion
Related to Film
Related to Games
Related to Hip-Hop
Related to Literature
Related to Music

Related to Punk
Related to Religion
Related to Toys
Relational Aesthetics
Relief
Religious Building
Rembrandtesque
Renaissance
Repetition
Representation of Everyday Objects
Research as Art
Resin
Rinpa School

Rococo
Roman Art and Architecture
Romanesque Art
Romanticism
Rough
Royal/Court Commission
Royalty/Aristocracy
Rug
Rural Life
Russia

S

Saints
San Francisco Artists
Scandinavia
Scandinavian Design
Scattered Composition
Scenes of Everyday Life
School of London
Science
Screen Format
Sculpture
Sculpture-Based Photography
Seating
Seduction and Courtship
Self as Subject
Self-Portrait
Sexual Identity
Sfumato
Shadows
Shallow Depth of Field
Sharp/Prickly
Shiny/Glossy
Side Chair
Side Table
Silhouettes
Silkscreen
Silver
Single Object

Site Specific Art
Skyscape
Slender
Slumped/Draped
Smooth Surface
Snapshot Aesthetic
Social Action
Social Realism
Socialist Realism
Sofa
Soft Sculpture
Song Dynasty
Sound Art
South Africa
South Asia
Southeast Asia
Southeast Europe
Southern Cone (Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay)
Southern Gothic
Spaces of the Art World
Spain
Sparse
Spatialism
Spiral Group
Splattered/Dripped
Sports/Athletics
Spray Paint

Staged Photography
Stained Glass Effect
Stains/Washes
Steel
Steel/Iron Frame Construction
Still Life
Stolen Moments
Stone
Stool
Storage
Street Photography
Striped
Suburbia
Sui Dynasty
Suprematism
Surrealism
Surveillance
Suspended/Hanging
Sustainable Design
Switzerland
Symbolic Composition
Symbolism
Symmetrical
Synchromism
Syrian Art

T

Table
Table Lamp
Tablet/Stele
Tableware
Taiwanese Art
Tang Dynasty
Tangled Forms
Tapestry and Wall Hanging
Tempera
Terracotta
Text
Textile Arts
Thai Art
The Abject
The Aesthetic Movement
The American West
The Art Market
The Artist's Studio

The Blue Rider
The Body
The City
The Elements
The Environment
The Fantastic
The Mundane
The Netherlands
The New Fauves
The Pictures Generation
The Seasons
The Stars Art Group (Xing Xing)
Timber Frame Construction
Time-Lapse Cinematography
Timekeeping
Times of Day
Tokyo Artists
Tonalism

Tondo
Tool
Topographic Photography
Traditional African Art
Traditional Oceanic Art
Traditional Photography Prints
Traditional Scroll Painting
Transavanguardia
Transfer
Transparent/Translucent Medium
Trauma and Struggle
Travel/Tourism
Tray
Trompe l’oeil
Turkey
Typography
Typologies

U

Ukiyo-e
Union des Artistes Modernes
United Kingdom and Ireland
United States
Unsettling

Upholstery
Urbanization
Use of Common Materials
Use of Ephemeral Materials
Use of Fabric

Use of Vintage Imagery
Utopia

V

Vacant and Vacated Spaces
Vase
Venetian School
Vessel

Vienna Secession
Viennese Actionism
Violence
Virtue and Vice

Viscous Forms
Visual Perception

W

Wall Sculpture and Installation
Wallpaper
War and Military
Washington Color School
Water
Watercolor

Waterscape
Website
Western Africa
Western Europe
Western Zhou Dynasty
Women Artists

Wood
Woodcut and Linocut
Work and Workers
Work on Paper
Woven/Perforated

Y

Yaka Art
Yombe Art
Yoruba Art

Young British Artists (YBAs)
Yuan Dynasty
Yup'ik Art

Z

Zaire School of Popular Painting

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