Starving | Standing | Healthy | |
Count | 0-23 | 24-56 | 57+ |
Color | evil | green | teal |
# | 39 | 39 | 16 |
Examples
Anemic | Critical | Adequate | |
Count | 0-10 | 11-19 | 20+ |
Color | white | gold | gray |
# | 55 | 25 | 14 |
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' and 'critical' categories. Apply labels only after cross-wicking (complete, now to work on those still in 'starving' and 'anemic'.
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.
Progress: 39/94
Work pages (9/93):
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.
- The Ghent Altarpiece (December 29th, 2021): 27 wicks, 7 on-page examples Standing Anemic
- Dogs Playing Poker (July 15th, 2019): 85 wicks, 9 on-page examples Healthy Anemic
- Potential tropes: Funny Animal Tropes
- Oni Embodiments (March 10th, 2023): 25 wicks, 12 on-page examples Standing Critical
- The Bayeux Tapestry (July 9th, 2019): 79 wicks, 13 on-page examples Healthy Critical
- Gothic Times (February 26th, 2024): 26 wicks, 14 on-page examples Standing Critical
- Marie de' Medici Cycle (January 10th, 2022): 30 wicks, 17 on-page examples Standing Critical
- Psyche and Cupid (Bouguereau) (January 1st, 2024): 38 wicks, 20 on-page examples Standing Adequate
- Medici Chapels (February 23rd, 2023): 44 wicks, 24 on-page examples Standing Adequate
- Raphael Rooms (February 26th, 2024): 52 wicks, 26 on-page examples Standing Adequate
- Seven Virtues (January 28th, 2024): 53 wicks, 32 on-page examples Standing Adequate
- Marriage A-la-Mode (July 9th, 2017): 60 wicks, 35 on-page examples Healthy Adequate
- Potential tropes: Melodrama
- Sistine Chapel (March 8th, 2017): 350 wicks, 74 on-page examples Healthy Adequate
- Potential tropes: Inspiring Sermon
Not Yet Created
- Black Paintings by Francisco de Goya
- Make Saturn Devouring His Son a redirect.
- Times Of Day: A four-painting set depicting the four timestamps found throughout the day: "L'Aurore" or "Dawn" (12 wicks, 6 on-page examples), "Le Jour" or "Day", "Le Crépuscule" or "Twilight", and "La Nuit" or "Evening Mood". Painted on canvas by William-Adolphe Bouguereau.
- Water Nymphs: Six mixed-media-on-scroll paintings by Gustav Klimt that have the same theme —the aforementioned water nymphs— and the same style. This style would later define the rest of Klimt's artworks. Currently, we have "Water Serpents I" (10 wicks, 4 on-page examples) on the wiki, but there's also its follow-up "Water Serpents II" as well as "Goldfish", "Medicine", and "Moving Water".
- Primavera (November 5th, 2021): 42 wicks, 13 on-page examples Standing Critical
- The Birth of Venus (January 4th, 2020): 131 wicks, 22 on-page examples Healthy Adequate
- Potential tropes: Pink Is Erotic
- Nymphs and Satyr (January 3rd, 2020): 20 wicks, 8 on-page examples Not Thriving Anemic
- The Return of Spring (November 13th, 2020): 17 wicks, 9 on-page examples Not Thriving Anemic
- Charity (January 5th, 2020): 22 wicks, 12 on-page examples Not Thriving Critical
- The Birth of Venus (January 4th, 2020): 30 wicks, 12 on-page examples Standing Critical
- Dante and Virgil in Hell (January 7th, 2020): 32 wicks, 21 on-page examples Standing Adequate
- Potential tropes: Period Piece
- The Birth of Venus (January 4th, 2020): 29 wicks, 12 on-page examples Standing Critical
- The Fallen Angel (September 11th, 2022): 99 wicks, 62 on-page examples Healthy Adequate
- Potential tropes: Fantastic Angst, His Own Worst Enemy, Index of Shame, Supernatural Angst, and Villains (return to Evil Tropes when done)
- Witches Sabbath (October 30th, 2019): 15 wicks, 4 on-page examples Not Thriving Anemic
- The Nude Maja (January 4th, 2020): 15 wicks, 6 on-page examples Not Thriving Anemic
- Annunciation (February 17th, 2024): 12 wicks, 6 on-page examples Not Thriving Anemic
- The Mona Lisa (November 6th, 2017): 274 wicks, 7 on-page examples Healthy Anemic
- The Last Supper (February 23rd, 2017): 154 wicks, 38 on-page examples Healthy Adequate
- Olympia (July 7th, 2019): 31 wicks, 11 on-page examples Standing Critical
- Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (July 6th, 2019): 56 wicks, 12 on-page examples Standing Critical
- Gassed (March 8th, 2022): 13 wicks, 6 on-page examples Not Thriving Anemic
- Potential tropes: Gas Mask Mooks
- Portrait of Madame X (January 5th, 2020): 32 wicks, 10 on-page examples Standing Anemic
- Potential tropes: Little Black Dress
- Hylas and the Nymphs (January 2nd, 2020): 20 wicks, 8 on-page examples Not Thriving Anemic
- Potential tropes: The Fair Folk, and Siren Song.
- The Lady of Shalott (November 3rd, 2021): 30 wicks, 12 on-page examples Standing Critical
- Circe Invidiosa (November 3rd, 2021): 25 wicks, 14 on-page examples Standing Critical
- Laser Kiwi flag by Lucy Gray (September 13th, 2023): 20 wicks, 7 on-page examples Not Thriving Anemic
- Grindhouse and Watercolors by Aza Smith (November 19th, 2015): 18 wicks, 9 fully contextualized, on-page examples—the rest are zero-context or unclear. Not Thriving Anemic
- Beast Fables by NazRigar (October 31st, 2022): 30 wicks, 22 on-page examples Standing Adequate
- Realistic Pokémon by Arvalis(September 14th, 2022): 41 wicks, 31 on-page examples Standing Adequate
- The Birth of Venus by Eduard Steinbruck (May 6th, 2023): 10 wicks, 4 on-page examples Not Thriving Anemic
- Odalisque by Jules Joseph Lefebvre (January 2nd, 2020): 13 wicks, 4 on-page examples Not Thriving Anemic
- The Age of Reptiles by Rudolph Zallinger (June 29th, 2023): 3 wicks, 5 on-page examples Not Thriving Anemic
- Venus and Cupid by Lorenzo Lotto (April 12th, 2020): 13 wicks, 5 on-page examples Not Thriving Anemic
- Young Hylas with the Water Nymphs by William Etty (January 5th, 2020): 17 wicks, 5 on-page examples Not Thriving Anemic
- Potential tropes: The Fair Folk, Siren Song, and Water Is Womanly
- Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer (January 1st, 2015): 52 wicks, 6 on-page examples Standing Anemic
- The Temptation of St Anthony by Félicien Rops (June 20th, 2020): 14 wicks, 6 on-page examples Not Thriving Anemic
- Potential tropes: Casual Crucifixion
- Young Sick Bacchus by Caravaggio (January 12th, 2020): 19 wicks, 6 on-page examples Not Thriving Anemic
- Wanderer above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich (November 10th, 2021): 31 wicks, 6 on-page examples Standing Anemic
- The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh (July 8th, 2019): 88 wicks, 6 on-page examples Healthy Anemic
- Venus and Cupid by Artemisia Gentileschi (April 12th, 2020): 17 wicks, 7 on-page examples Not Thriving Anemic
- The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck (April 11th, 2022): 18 wicks, 7 on-page examples Not Thriving Anemic
- Isle of the Dead by Takashi Murakami (July 18th, 2018): 18 wicks, 7 on-page examples Not Thriving Anemic
- The Rape of Proserpina by Peter Paul Rubens (November 14th, 2020): 21 wicks, 7 on-page examples Not Thriving Anemic
- Potential tropes: Overdramatic Dating Commotion
- The Seven Deadly Sins by Otto Dix (November 4th, 2021): 21 wicks, 7 on-page examples Not Thriving Anemic
- Potential tropes: Grin of Rage, Inappropriate Pride, Our Monsters Are Different, and Seven Deadly Sins
- The Kiss by Francisco Hayez (November 16th, 2021): 22 wicks, 7 on-page examples Not Thriving Anemic
- Sleeping Venus by Giorgione (January 3rd, 2020): 28 wicks, 7 on-page examples Standing Anemic
- The Kiss by Gustav Klimt (November 16th, 2021): 31 wicks, 7 on-page examples Standing Anemic
- The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dalí (November 10th, 2021): 72 wicks, 7 on-page examples Healthy Anemic
- Potential tropes: Floating Clocks (also, help that trope thrive)
- The Planet Venus by Luis Ricardo Falero (January 20th, 2020): 19 wicks, 8 on-page examples Not Thriving Anemic
- The Raft of the Medusa by Théodore Géricault (November 4th, 2021): 25 wicks, 8 on-page examples Standing Anemic
- The Night Watch by Rembrandt van Rijn (January 5th, 2018): 30 wicks, 8 on-page examples Standing Anemic
- A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat (November 25th, 2021): 42 wicks, 8 on-page examples Standing Anemic
- Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time by Agnolo Bronzino (January 3rd, 2020): 26 wicks, 9 on-page examples 'Standing Anemic
- Potential tropes: Divine Incest
- Drinking Bacchus by Guido Reni (January 5th, 2020): 17 wicks, 9 on-page examples Not Thriving Anemic
- Grande Odalisque by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (June 6th, 2020): 21 wicks, 9 on-page examples Not Thriving Anemic
- The Fighting Temeraire by JMW Turner (April 15th, 2020): 23 wicks, 9 on-page examples Not Thriving Anemic
- Potential tropes: Winds Of Change
- Thor's Fight with the Giants by Mårten Eskil Winge (March 26th, 2020): 24 wicks, 9 on-page examples Standing Anemic
- Potential tropes: Titanomachy, Round Two
- Guernica by Pablo Picasso (May 29th, 2020): 70 wicks, 9 on-page examples Healthy Anemic
- The Problem We All Live With by Norman Rockwell (August 31st, 2021): 21 wicks, 10 on-page examples Not Thriving Anemic
- Potential tropes: White Is Pure
- The Swing by Jean-Honoré Fragonard (January 4th, 2020): 26 wicks, 10 on-page examples Standing Anemic
- The Sin by Franz von Stuck (June 11th, 2020): 19 wicks, 10 on-page examples Not Thriving Anemic
- Allegory of the Four Seasons by Bartolomeo Manfredi (March 9th, 2023): 21 wicks, 12 on-page examples Not Thriving Critical
- Abaporu by Tarsila do Amaral (January 17th, 2022): 22 wicks, 12 on-page examples Not Thriving Critical
- The Lady of Shalott by William Holman Hunt (November 3rd, 2021): 22 wicks, 12 on-page examples Not Thriving '''Critical
- Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez (November 17th, 2021): 34 wicks, 13 on-page examples Standing Critical
- Ophelia by John Everett Millais (November 3rd, 2021): 41 wicks, 13 on-page examples Standing Critical
- The Scream by Edvard Munch (May 22nd, 2022): 141 wicks, 13 on-page examples Healthy Critical
- Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix (November 4th, 2021): 46 wicks, 15 on-page examples Standing Critical
- Potential tropes: Failed State
- Thoth Tarot Deck by Lady Frieda Harris and Aleister Crowley (August 14th, 2018): 14 wicks, 5 on-page examples Not Thriving Anemic
- Potential tropes: Themed Tarot Deck
- Space Fantasy Commemorative Stamp Booklet by Stephen Hickman (June 2nd, 2019): 15 wicks, 8 on-page examples Not Thriving Anemic
- Carta Marina by Olaus Magnus (April 10th, 2016): 28 wicks, 17 on-page examples Standing Critical
- Potential tropes: Kaiju, Law of Cartographical Elegance
- Mystical Medleys: A Vintage Cartoon Tarot by Gary Hall (April 13th, 2022): 36 wicks, 19 on-page examples Standing Critical
- Potential tropes: Retraux
- The Future Forest by Thomas Dambo (November 25th, 2020): 13 wicks, 7 on-page examples Not Thriving Anemic
- Nue Couchée by Dorothea Tanning (October 29th, 2020): 15 wicks, 8 on-page examples Not Thriving Anemic
- Aphrodite of Menophantos (January 19th, 2020): 16 wicks, 8 on-page examples Not Thriving Anemic
- Venus of Willendorf (January 3rd, 2020): 30 wicks, 8 on-page examples Standing Anemic
- Laocoön and His Sons by several Island of Rhodes sculptors (January 3rd, 2020): 28 wicks, 8 on-page examples Standing Anemic
- Potential tropes: Cruel and Unusual Death, Dated History, Just Desserts, and Self-Inflicted Hell
- The Rape of Proserpina by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (November 14th, 2020): 36 wicks, 9 on-page examples Standing Anemic
- Worker and Kolkhoz Woman (April 18th, 2024): 18 wicks, 9 on-page examples Not Thriving Anemic
- Venus de Milo by Alexandros of Antioch (August 2nd, 2018): 141 wicks, 9 on-page examples Healthy Anemic
- Crystal Palace Dinosaurs by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (January 20th, 2022): 9 wicks, 11 on-page examples Not Thriving Critical
- Nefertiti Bust by Thutmose (September 7th, 2020): 46 wicks, 12 on-page examples Standing Critical
- The Sphinx (August 26th, 2014): 143 wicks, 14 on-page examples Healthy Critical
- Potential tropes: Cats Are Magic, Our Sphinxes Are Different
- Statue of Liberty by Auguste Bartholdi and Gustave Eiffel (October 27th, 2017): 613 wicks, 17 on-page examples Healthy Critical
- David by Michelangelo Buonarroti (April 12th, 2017): 116 wicks, 26 on-page examples Healthy Adequate
Page-less examples:
- I Knew It!:
- The Angelus by Jean-François Millet shows a couple of farm workers with their heads bowed in prayer. Since childhood, Salvador Dalí believed this was actually a couple that was burying their child that had been painted over. When he grew up, he persuaded the Louvre to x-ray the painting, and a child-size coffin was revealed behind the potato basket.
- Door of Doom
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- "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
- Caravaggio's Calling of saint Matthew sets the biblical scene into the time of early 17th century.
- Tastes Like Diabetes (disambiguation)
- The complete works of Mary Engelbreit. Even her name tastes like diabetes.
- Her "Engeldark" line of art dials this down somewhat with monochrome art and a touch of Black Comedy.
- Cicely Mary Barker's Flower Fairies certainly count.
- 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.
- The complete works of Margaret Keane, painter of huge-eyed children.
- Anne Geddes photographs of babies dressed as flowers and vegetables.
- The complete works of Brazilian Romero Brito.
- 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)
- Enormous Engine
- 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
- 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.
- 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...
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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.