Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Visual arts

Request to rename Wikimedia Commons category Conservation-restoration

There is a request to rename Wikimedia Commons category "Conservation-restoration" to "Conservation-restoration of cultural heritage objects" that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Myotus (talk) 21:45, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

The Embrace (Schiele)

Hello! I would like to propose creating a Wikipedia article for Egon Schiele's 1917 painting The Embrace (Die Umarmung), also known as Lovers II. Does anyone in this project have reliable sources and is able to create the article?

Thank you in advance for any contributions. ~2025-32122-32 (talk) 10:37, 8 November 2025 (UTC)

 Comment: There are articles on other language Wikipedias that can be translated to create The Embrace (Die Umarmung) . Additionally, there are references located at The embrace (Q19967004). Perhaps it would be best to start an article at Draft:The Embrace (Die Umarmung) . Peaceray (talk) 19:06, 8 November 2025 (UTC)

@Peaceray I usually write Wikipedia articles in another language and don’t have the skills to create this one in English. I’m adding it here because it falls within this project’s scope, perhaps someone with the expertise could take care of it. Thank you in advance for any contributions! ~2025-37197-70 (talk) 10:25, 29 November 2025 (UTC)

Find page for this Russian icon art please

I uploaded this: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MadonnaAtTheGate.jpg

If somebody could please find an appropriate Wikipedia page to put it on and put it there, I would appreciate it. Please let me know. The caption displayed with it said:

“Portraitissa or Madonna of the gate Early 20th Century Oil on wood panel with applied silver 1991.013.015 This image of the Virgin was based on one that was believed to have been painted by St. Luke. The original image was found in the Georgian Iviron monastery on Mount Athos in Greece, having been there since 999. The Portraitissa is considered miraculous: praying to it activates the powerful intercession of the Virgin Mary. According to tradition, the icon was cast into the sea by a widow to escape its seizure and destruction by iconoclasts. Instead of sinking. the icon stood upright on the water and drifted to the west. The widow's son became a monk at Mount Athos, where he recounted the story, and several years later, a monk named Gabriel from the Iviron monastery at Mount Athos recovered the icon from the sea. He placed it on the altar, but the next day it was hanging above the gate of the monastery. Gabriel then reported that the Virgin appeared to him in a vision and said she wished to be the protector of the monks. Thus the icon was permanently installed above the monastery gates and called the Portraitissa or "Gate-Keeper."”

Discussion at Talk:List of works by Vincent van Gogh § Images in tables

You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:List of works by Vincent van Gogh § Images in tables, which is within the scope of this WikiProject. Rosaece ♡ talk ♡ contribs 21:31, 13 November 2025 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Alexander Stoddart

Alexander Stoddart has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 00:15, 14 November 2025 (UTC)

Merge discussion

Project members may be interested in this sculpture-related merge discussion:

• Talk:Bell and Wind Environment

Happy editing! ---Another Believer _(Talk) 15:13, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

populating Category:Sleep in art

After some initial category population by myself and Johnbod, please join in. Haven't done a full search on the category:Madonna and Child in art and category:Nativity of Jesus in art pages, which likely have category-worthy pages. Thanks. Randy Kryn (talk) 01:41, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

I'm confident I've added most worthy pages but there may be a few I've missed. I couldn't add any from Category:Nativity of Jesus in art because while many show the child lying down, they do not specifically depict him as asleep. Golem08 (talk) 21:21, 27 November 2025 (UTC)

Nice work Golem08, thanks. Randy Kryn (talk) 09:34, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

The Kiss (Rodin sculpture) listed at Requested moves

A requested move discussion has been initiated for The Kiss (Rodin sculpture) to be moved to The Kiss (Rodin) and for several similar moves to be performed for other articles about sculptures. Interested members of this Wikiproject may want to participate in the discussion here. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 18:08, 29 November 2025 (UTC)

A hand here, please

The long-term commonsense link List of paintings by John Everett Millais has been removed from the See also section of Ophelia (painting), and after adding it back I was reverted twice by Ceoil without explanation. One more revert on my part may be described as an edit war (not by myself, it seems more of running up against a newly-formed ownership issue), so can someone else or an admin return the long-term link? Thanks. I tried on the talk page but just ran into another finger-pointing discussion from Viriditas after pinging him because I know he is interested in the topic even though we take opposite views. Lists of paintings by their artists are standard on visual arts articles, something these editors know and are ignoring (IAR is fine when done well, this isn't that). Randy Kryn (talk) 09:59, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

(will add this to the linked discussion as well) In the discussion I'd been assured that feature review editors would oppose including something like List of paintings by John Everett Millais as a See also link in Ophelia (a famous painting by John Everett Millais). I then asked for those editors to be pinged to the discussion, and this was not done. Since WP:SEEALSO clearly supports including closely associated lists (see the 'Contents' section for a direct example of an allowed list), and I really can't imagine a counter-argument (notice that none are given in the discussion other than "I don't like it" variety, which I can sometimes sympathize with but not this time) and it's been a couple days with the good faith reverter, Ceoil, not explaining 'why' he reverted after removing this long-term See also entry. He's done this before, and I've agreed not to add back the See also link into quite a few feature articles of artists that Ceoil has competently taken under his wing (resulting, I'd assume upon my own experience with adding lists to See also, in a great deal of lost readership for those lists). But when he did this to a Millais, naw, that's one artist too far, and without his giving any reason whatsoever and in compliance with WP:SEEALSO, I'll add it back for the third time but won't revert if it is reverted again so as keep out of edit war territory (no-Wikipedians land). Randy Kryn (talk) 14:45, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:The Kiss (Rodin sculpture)#Requested move 27 November 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:The Kiss (Rodin sculpture)#Requested move 27 November 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Jeffrey34555 (talk) 00:22, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

In the museum's article, Under the heading Selected works in the collection, we display 31 images. That seems like too many, and I suggest that we weed it down to 2 dozen or less. The question is, which ones are the least important/representative ones shown? Or should we just eliminate ones where the artist is represented by two or more images? Please respond on the museum article's Talk page. -- Ssilvers (talk) 02:30, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

Discussion about WikiProject banner templates

For WikiProjects that participate in rating articles, the banners for talk pages usually say something like:

• "This article has been rated as Low-importance on the importance scale."

There is a proposal to change the default wording on the banners to say "priority" instead of "importance". This could affect the template for your group. Please join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Council#Proposal to update wording on WikiProject banners. Stefen 𝕋ower ^{Huddle • Handiwerk} 19:52, 6 December 2025 (UTC) (on behalf of the WikiProject Council)