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Tagging help needed

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Do we have any tags for pics like post #427558 or post #262644? I tentatively tagged post #427558 as ukiyoe, even though it's not ukiyo-e; it's a different style I don't know the name of. I'd appreciate anyone giving me a proper name for this style.

I'm also thinking we need a more comprehensive system for tagging parodies of famous/historical works and styles, with implications in place. We have The Last Supper, The Creation of Adam (which is strangely untagged), and a number of other parodies. Any ideas how to tie them together?

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Right, nihonga sounds like a nice catchall for Japanese-style parodies. Ukiyoe would then be a subcategory of it with an implication.

Fine_art_parody could work, I guess, although I'm not sure if implicating nihongafine_art_parody would really feel right, and I'd like ultimately to arrive to a tag that could encompass all the art parodies and feel-alikes. Things like post #199236 and post #199237, where it's obvious that it parodies a certain style, but it's not anything specific enough to be named easily. I also feel it should include historical eras and events parodies/references, but it might be just me.

It doesn't help this discussion that there are huge number of different schools of Japanese painting. In this case, both post #427558 and post #262644 are definitely more in the tradition of Rimpa school Sumi-e. Until that point, people hadn't done much incorporation of non-charcoal pigments. post #262644 is actually a parody or homage to the famed 風神雷神図 (Wind God Thunder God).

So ink_and_wash or sumi-e would probably be better for things that look brushed and reserve ukiyo-e for posts more in the vein of post #371076.

As for post #199236 and post #199237...I'd guess they're probably emulating some China-adapted western style.

葉月 said:
However, Wikipedia says that Sumi-e are exclusively B&W, and I don't know enough to disprove this claim.

Well, Wikipedia is correct to a degree. The "tradition" of ink painting specifies that the essential aspect of something can be conveyed through only gradations of black ink on white paper. But as art is wont to do, the technique of this style of ink painting expanded beyond that even as early the late sixteenth century. Maybe it's because I've never been a fan of formalism, but I have difficulty thinking of it without colours.

I'm okay with fine_art_parody. It's not perfect, but doesn't necessarily need to be. I guess you could argue that "parody" is a bit loose for some of these if it's mimicking a style rather than a particular piece. But unless someone has a better tag, I see nothing wrong with using it. Even if someone comes up with a better one later, we can just alias fine_art_parody to it.

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