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Artworks in general are in serious need of tropes and wicks. This sandbox exists to keep track of those two parameters, as well as a list of potential tropes. Sorted by example count.

Goal: Get them to the "standing" category.

Collect examples from Allegorical Character, Art Tropes, Body Language, Camera Tricks, Cast of Personifications, Color Motif, Costume Tropes, Cover Tropes, Dated History, Fan Art, Film Posters, Graphical Tropes, Interpretative Character, Lighting Tropes, Media Adaptation Tropes, Mythical Motifs, Nudity Tropes, Offscreen Inertia, Painting the Medium, Personal Appearance Tropes, Philosophy Tropes, Protagonist Tropes, Religion Tropes (Biblical Motifs), Sequential Art, Settings, Spectacle, Stock Poses, Symbolism, The Time of Myths, Tropes of the Divine, Weather and Environment, and Works by Subject.

Also from ImageSource.Arts, ImageSource.Paintings, ImageSource.Sculptures, and ImageSource.Other Media.

Collect extra wicks from ShoutOut.Other Media and ReferencedBy.Other Media.

NOTE: Halfway through the process, I noticed that this lack of examples has two root causes. One, most of these articles are recently made (The New '20s). Two, there are few tropes about the technical aspects of visual arts (e.g., composition and figura serpentinata) or the movements they belong to.

Work pages (9/93):

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    By Collection (5/12) 

Some artworks belong to a group in the same way a song belongs to an album. They are thematically connected and were often commissioned together. This Ask the Tropers thread agreed that it's easier to trope artworks by the set they belong to rather than individually.

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Sandro Botticelli

William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Alexandre Cabanel

Francisco de Goya

Leonardo da Vinci

  • Annunciation (February 17th, 2024): 12 wicks, 6 on-page examples.
  • The Mona Lisa (November 6th, 2017): 274 wicks, 7 on-page examples.
  • The Last Supper (February 23rd, 2017): 154 wicks, 38 on-page examples. Standing

Édouard Manet

John Singer Sargent

John William Waterhouse

    Digital Art (1/4) 
  • Laser Kiwi flag by Lucy Gray (September 13th, 2023): 20 wicks, 7 on-page examples.
  • Grindhouse and Watercolors by Aza Smith (November 19th, 2015): 18 wicks, 9 fully contextualized, on-page examples. The rest are zero-context or unclear.
  • Beast Fables by NazRigar (October 31st, 2022): 30 wicks, 22 on-page examples.
  • Realistic Pokémon by Arvalis(September 14th, 2022): 41 wicks, 31 on-page examples. Standing

    Paintings (1/39) 

    Prints (0/4) 

    Sculptures (0/13) 

Page-less examples:

  • Door of Doom
    1. That Which I Should Have Done I Did Not Do: The painting is also called The Door and represents a wasted life—not going through it was the wrong choice, therefore making it an inversion.

  • Stand-In Portrait
    1. A recent minor trend in artwork subverts this; it turns out that if you apply makeup carefully to a person and make them sit very still, it's actually difficult to tell they aren't a painting if your angle on the person isn't changing.

  • Perilous Prehistoric Seas
    1. One artwork◊ by famed paleoartist Charles R. Knight shows a Tylosaurus pursuing a pair of fish at what appears to be high tide. The art does a good job of establishing Tylosaurus as a predator, with its design in the artwork being very evocative of it being a prehistoric Sea Serpent.
    2. Having had a prolific history as a paleoartist, Luis V. Rey is no stranger to prehistoric marine life. One of them shows a Tylosaurus pair trying to attack a Quetzalcoatlus note  This particular artwork has been used as the book cover for a book called Prehistoric Monsters.
    3. A popular early paleoart trope in the 19th century was nightmarish scenes of prehistoric sea creatures battling each other◊ in a dark, tumultuous ocean. As paleontology progressed and artistic tastes changed, painters like Zdeněk Burian would recapitulate similar scenes in much more naturalistic presentations◊, usually with the peril more implicit but still present.

  • Pet Dress-Up
    1. The "Pets Rock" line of photographic art, depicts cats and dogs with the clothing and hairstyles of celebrities (mostly musicians, if not originally).

  • The Modern Gods
    1. "I Illustrated Modern Gods" is an article posted by Katarina Makarova on the online magazine Bored Panda showing illustrations of gods associated with computers and the internet illustrated in a Classical/Neoclassical style, including a God of WiFi, God of Headphones, a God of Games And Virtual Reality, God of GPS, God of Smarphones, God of Social Networks and the Antivir Guardian.

  • Setting Update
    1. Caravaggio's Calling of saint Matthew sets the biblical scene into the time of early 17th century.

  • Tastes Like Diabetes (disambiguation)
    1. The complete works of Mary Engelbreit. Even her name tastes like diabetes.
    2. Her "Engeldark" line of art dials this down somewhat with monochrome art and a touch of Black Comedy.
    3. Cicely Mary Barker's Flower Fairies certainly count.
    4. Jeff Koons embodies this trope from his golden statue of Michael Jackson and pet monkey Bubbles to a 40-foot puppy statue made of flowers.
    5. The complete works of Margaret Keane, painter of huge-eyed children.
    6. Anne Geddes photographs of babies dressed as flowers and vegetables.
    7. The complete works of Brazilian Romero Brito.
    8. A majority of Juan Ferrandiz's artwork and illustrations fall into this. He was fond of making uplifting and wholesome related artwork, sculptures, and wood carvings of children, angels, and lambs having a peaceful life.

  • "Weird" Al Effect (disambiguation)
    1. Quite some famous or well-known people from previous centuries are nowadays better known because they were painted or sculpted by world-famous artists. So whenever, for instance, the Mona Lisa is parodied, most people aren't aware that she was an actual aristocratic 15th-16th century lady.

  • Enormous Engine
    1. Ed "Big Daddy" Roth was famous for his drawings of cars with engines almost half the size of the car. That is, just about everything in his drawings was out of scale. Big supercharged dragster engines in small carbodies on big axles and wheels, and out of the roof (if there is one) sticks the huge driver with a giant shifter in his hand.

  • Pop-Cultural Osmosis
    1. 19th-century British cartoonist John Tenniel had a long career as a cartoonist in Punch!. But today he is only remembered for illustrating Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.
    2. Subverted in that some of Tenniel's Punch cartoons — most notably perhaps "Dropping the Pilot", his reaction to the dismissal of Otto von Bismarck as German chancellor — are still very familiar from being reprinted in historical textbooks and referenced by more modern cartoonists. It's just that most people don't realize they were drawn by the same artist as Lewis Carroll's books...
    3. Thanks to many biopics about Leonardo da Vinci, painter Andrea Mantegna is nowadays better known as Da Vinci's mentor than for his own work.
    4. To many art fans, Jean-Paul Marat is remembered more for Jacques-Louis David's striking painting than the actual historical character. The work has in fact done a lot to transform a very radical politician into an innocent victim.
    5. There was once a supermarket themed art exhibition in France called the "Orrimbe show", that would've likely faded into obscurity if the creators of the exhibition hadn't asked Jean-Michel Jarre to produce music for the event. Jarre ended up creating Musique pour Supermarché, an album that was famously pressed only once and had its master recording destroyed in front of an audience.

  • Giant Woman
    1. The art project Tokyo Gigantic Girls has photographs and videos of young Japanese beauties of enormous size carrying out their daily activities without disturbing the citizenry.

  • Heroic Sacrifice
    1. Michelangelo Buonarroti's The Crucifixion of Saint Peter shows the saint getting executed for refusing to stop spreading the good news. Judging by the look on his face, he remains defiant in his faith.
    2. The Fallen Caryatid: Ancient Greek architecture included women carved into columns, holding up the roof. They were later carved into buildings done in the Classical style and evolved into men, demons, anyone one wanted to have holding up a building forever. The sculptor Auguste Rodin created the "Fallen Caryatid" as a woman collapsing under the impossible burden, but struggling to carry it still. Many interpretations exist, of course.

  • Wring Every Last Drop out of Him
    1. Death of Dido: Inspired by Virgil's Aeneid, Guercino captures the prolonged, tragic, and epic death of Queen Dido by impalement on an immolation pyre. Her subjects are mourning her, her sister Anna is inconsolable, her lover Aeneas' leaving ship can be seen in the distance, and Goddess Juno is compassionately releasing the queen's soul from her suffering.

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