Art movement tags

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Confetto

I wouldn't be against these if they were being used to refer to a style, but it seems more like they're just being applied to parodies of pieces from the respective time periods, which isn't very helpful.

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trapster77

Historyanon said in forum #420439:

Yesterday a Builder created several tags for various art movement styles: romantic movement, renaissance (style), neo-classical movement, and baroque movement. While my instinct is to nuke them, I wanted to ask if these would be helpful to anyone in any way before I did.

Summoning @pipirupirupirupipirupi to this thread as the creator of these tags to explain why they thought these were necessary.

this sounds useful but only if people can actually find these tags. i doubt the average person can tell these apart so there would need to be a classical art (style) super tag or simply turn everything into that single tag. btw on reddit there is an accidental renaissance sub, so if we turn everything into a tag i think that should be an alias

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Knowledge Seeker

Yeah, I don't think these tags are particularly helpful to the average viewer, especially since we already have fine art parody for specific pieces. I don't think this is the sort of the site where people care if a piece is mimicking the romantic movement vs. the neo-classical art movement.

I can see a tag for just mimicking the style of classical artwork being good, but definitely not for just random parodies alone.

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pipirupirupirupipirupi

Historyanon said in forum #420469:

BUR #55403 has been approved by @nonamethanks.

nuke romantic_movement
nuke renaissance_(style)
nuke neo-classical_movement
nuke baroque_movement

I think it's better to just nuke them all rather than bothering trying to figure out aliases.

I somewhat understand wanting to nuke the other art movement tags because they're kinda niche, but renaissance (style) seems pretty clear-cut and useful even if you aren't that interested in art history. It's a style parody tag for people mimicking one of the most recognizable and well-known eras of art.
In defense of the art movement tags, each movement has distinct characteristics related to composition, rendering, and theme. Baroque art is the precursor to the rococo movement. It's full of detailed compositions, intense chiaroscuro, and theatrical poses full of emotion. Lots of crowds, action shots, high-contrast lighting, and movement.
The neo-classical movement is basically the Renaissance: the sequel, but this time more greek. Lots of ancient greek clothes, compositions focused on a single person, stiffer poses and straight lines of action, and flowing fabrics. The actual art style was a slightly updated version of renaissance (style). This one I'd kind of understand combining with the Renaissance because they're so similar.
The romantic era tends to focus more on environments and slice-of-life-type scenes or notable moments in history. It was a bit closer to impressionism than the previous movements (but not quite there yet). It's the vaguest out of all the movements and the one I understand nuking the most.

I think this image does a pretty good job of showing the differences

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trapster77

pipirupirupirupipirupi said in forum #420485:

I somewhat understand wanting to nuke the other art movement tags because they're kinda niche, but renaissance (style) seems pretty clear-cut and useful even if you aren't that interested in art history. It's a style parody tag for people mimicking one of the most recognizable and well-known eras of art.
In defense of the art movement tags, each movement has distinct characteristics related to composition, rendering, and theme. Baroque art is the precursor to the rococo movement. It's full of detailed compositions, intense chiaroscuro, and theatrical poses full of emotion. Lots of crowds, action shots, high-contrast lighting, and movement.
The neo-classical movement is basically the Renaissance: the sequel, but this time more greek. Lots of ancient greek clothes, compositions focused on a single person, stiffer poses and straight lines of action, and flowing fabrics. The actual art style was a slightly updated version of renaissance (style). This one I'd kind of understand combining with the Renaissance because they're so similar.
The romantic era tends to focus more on environments and slice-of-life-type scenes or notable moments in history. It was a bit closer to impressionism than the previous movements (but not quite there yet). It's the vaguest out of all the movements and the one I understand nuking the most.

I think this image does a pretty good job of showing the differences

i do believe that these things could be great tags regardless of what you name them. i love the "chaotic"/dramatic baroque style like post #2324438

but the problem is the baroque movement tag you created is filled with Girl With A Pearl Earring which doesn't even match your explanation of what the baroque movement is since it's literally just a portrait of a single character and there isn't anything chaotic going on

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pipirupirupirupipirupi

trapster77 said in forum #420486:

i do believe that these things could be great tags regardless of what you name them. i love the "chaotic"/dramatic baroque style like post #2324438

but the problem is the baroque movement tag you created is filled with Girl With A Pearl Earring which doesn't even match your explanation of what the baroque movement is since it's literally just a portrait of a single character and there isn't anything chaotic going on

Girl With A Pearl Earring is technically a baroque painting, but admittedly mostly in the way it's shaded and the date it was made, but not so much in composition and theme. I tried to only put examples that mimicked the shading of the original, but i could go back and take all of them out since they're only tangentially related.

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