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Artworks in the 2017 Tagset

ETA: Blue Plate Special

Below is a list of the artwork nominated this year, with links. If I've missed anything, or if anyone has better links to the art, please leave me a comment.

This year I'm also making a series of comment threads, one for each art fandom, and I encourage anyone who is interested to do a quick bit of fandom pimping in the relevant thread. What sort of prompts might you be interested in? What interests you about the art?

1947 Heidelberg Photographs series - Walter Sanders

Two american girls sauntering...
Girls' dormitory on the Schlossberg...
American teen-agers drink toast...
Characters:
Girl lying on bed in Schlossberg dorm and drinking a toast in the inn
Sauntering American girl in checked shirt
Sauntering American girl in sweater and necklace
Staid German Woman

Beautiful Losers II - Jack Vettriano

Beautiful Losers II
Characters:
Seated Man (Beautiful Losers II)
Standing Man (Beautiful Losers II)
Woman (Beautiful Losers II)

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Blue Plate Special - Jeff Lee Johnson

Blue Plate Special
Characters:
Blind Man with Newspaper
Point of View Person
Smiling Waitress with Knife
Tentacle Monster Under the Counter

Dixit (Card Game)

Pinterest
Small thumbnails identifying all the cards
Google search

This is a card game, but I think it probably more or less counts as an art prompt - the game involves a pack of cards with interesting illustrations, and unless the nominator turns up to say they had something different in mind, I think it's most likely the requests will be for stories inspired by the art on the cards. I can't find one perfect site to link to showing all the art: if you have a pinterest account I think you can probably see all or most of the cards at the first link. The second link has very small thumbnails allowing you to identify which card images you've found elsewhere belong in which pack. The third link merely saves you the time of typing dixit cards into google image search. If anyone requesting this has direct links to better quality images of cards they particularly like, please comment with the link and I'll add it in.

Elements - Experiments in Character Design - Kaycie D.

Beryllium (Elements Character Design)
Chlorine (Elements Character Design) (sorry, couldn't find a better image)
Helium (Elements Character Design)
Technetium (Elements Character Design)

Europe After the Rain II - Max Ernst (Painting)

Europe After the Rain II - Max Ernst

Flodskörden || Things from the Flood - Simon Stålenhag

Things from the Flood Part I
Things from the Flood Part II
Characters:
Annika (Flodskörden)
Annika's Boyfriend (Flodskörden)
Female police officer (Flodskörden)
Stimulus Roadworker (Flodskörden)

Simon Stålenhag is perennial yuletide art favourite, but you could easily miss this one, since it's found under Books & Literature - quite correctly as it was published as a book, but it is indeed art, and the art is available online at the links above.

Le Fruit Defendu - Auguste Toulmouche

Le Fruit Defendu
Le Fruit Defendu (b&w)

The Garden Door - William Bruce Ellis Ranken

The Garden Door
Characters:
Man in a Grey Suit (The Garden Door - Ranken)
Man in a Hat (The Garden Door - Ranken)
Man With Flowers (The Garden Door - Ranken)

Hedgehog and Polar Bear - Nami Nishikawa

Artist's Tumblr
Pinterest board of nominator's favourites
Characters:
Cat (Hedgehog and Polar Bear)
Hedgehog (Hedgehog and Polar Bear)
Polar Bear (Hedgehog and Polar Bear)

Lisa Frank - Works

Dancing Dolphins (Lisa Frank)
Dancing Dolphins (Google image search)
Hunter (Lisa Frank)
Hunter (Google image search)
Playtime Kittens (Lisa Frank) (Google image search)
Rainbow Chaser (Lisa Frank)
Rainbow Chaser (Google image search)

These all seem to be recurrent characters in Lisa Frank's art, so I've linked fact sheets for the three that seemed to have them, and otherwise just general image searches where you can find the nominated characters in a number of different pieces. Frank's Facebook also has many images.

Night Sun Tarot Deck

Knight of Wands (Night Sun Tarot)
Page of Swords (Night Sun Tarot)
Three of Swords (Night Sun Tarot)
Three of Pentacles (Night Sun Tarot)

Omar Rayyan - Works

Lady in Furs (Omar Rayyan - Works)
The Morning After (Omar Rayyan - Works)
Spanish Mackerel (Omar Rayyan - Works)
Tea in the Tempest (Omar Rayyan - Works)

Another perennial favourite making a reappearance.

Shadowscapes Tarot

The Emperor (Shadowscapes)
Knight of Wands (Shadowscapes )
Nine of Swords (Shadowscapes)
Page of Swords (Shadowscapes)
Queen of Swords (Shadowscapes)
Seven of Swords (Shadowscapes)

Sino-Soviet Propaganda Posters

Sino-Soviet Propaganda Posters

Something I Must Do (Woot T-Shirt)

Something I Must Do

Space Cats - Bronwyn Schuster

Orange Tabby Space Cat (I think this is the right one - I'd have said this one was the orange tabby and Space Cat I is brown.)
Purple Longhair Space Cat
Rocket Pack Space Cat
Rocket Ship Space Cat

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Dixit is really gorgeous and has so many possibilities for worldbuilding. There's not really a plot to speak of. The different expansions have slightly different overall feelings to them for me, but that might be subjective.

I think it's worth noting that if you like the idea of Dixit and the art on the cards, but want something with a plot to give more structure, Mysterium (board game) is sort of like Dixit with a murder mystery and psychics communicating with a ghost using similar cards.

The original nominator pimped the fandom here, but they are no longer requesting it.

I'm now requesting! I just love surrealism, and these cards have a lot of that. I'm very open when it comes to fic for this. I'd take fic that is tied to the gameplay or fic that is just focused on the art (so you don't have to know or own the game itself, you can just look at pictures online). I'd also enjoy a fusion between the strange world of Dixit cards and any of my other requests.

See my letter for more info.

I recall last year's nominator of this painting provided a link to this tumblr post as their inspiration for requesting the painting.

Last year's nominator (

shadow_lover21) described the deck here:

Night Sun is a very dark, intricate deck. Most of the cards have images of people/beings, which make for great characters, and the imagery combined with the hierarchical structure of the deck make for fantastic worldbuilding opportunities. I personally envision the Major Arcana as deities, with the suits of the Minor Arcana as opposing kingdoms.

The Morning After: Ok, presuming he isn't just seeing things, how did that octopus get in his drink? Is it some sort of hangover cure? Something left over from the previous night? What is a sea creature doing with some sort of nature spirit or Dionysian follower, both typically entirely land based?

Tea in the Tempest: I love the fox's self possession. I have a thing for competence and unflappability, so this is pretty much perfect. I think this could be a scene from the dashing-if-at-times-morally-questionable adventures of the Fox - possibly other episodes can be seen in other Rayyan paintings, such as The Escape, Moonlight Serenade, The Crow and the Fox, Sour Grapes, The Card Sharp

One fan of this deck describing it anon:

I'm into it for pretty fairy boys making out, and the power dynamics possible with the inherent hierarchy of tarot. (Plus worldbuilding, and riding dragons and giant birds!) But there are plenty of different characters to suit a wide variety of fic desires :)

Thank you for this compilation, quillori :D

Chiming in for some namespace pimping (I'm pretty sure I'm the anon mentioned above, haha) -- this deck is a gorgeous, gorgeous collection of art. In addition to the specific nominated cards linked above, you can browse the entire deck here:

http://www.shadowscapes.com/Tarot/cardsmain.php?suit=0

Tarot fic's a lot of fun because you can draw from the entire deck for your worldbuilding, look into traditional meanings/symbolism for characterization, or just focus entire on the specific images. The artist's website linked above has accompanying text for each image - for example, the Nine of Swords is Suffering from anguish, fear, anxiety, guilt, uncertainties in the night. (hello, woobie fic ;D)

I'm in it for the slash, but the Queen of Swords and Page of Swords cards both star female characters, so you could mix things up with femslash or het prompts too :)

Basically, consider this deck for Yuletide if you're into:

Beautiful watercolors
Winged people
Birds and foxes and other creatures
Masks
Hierarchies
Occult dreamscapes
Tattoos
Flower symbolism
Elaborate costumes
Decidedly less elaborate costumes

Thank you for such a great write up! You've certainly sold me on this one - I can't wait to see what's written for it.

I believe "Something I Must Do (Woot T-Shirt)" would count as artwork. It can be seen here: https://shirt.woot.com/offers/something-i-must-do

Thanks! I've added it, and made it a pimping thread below.

Sino-Soviet Propaganda Posters - Tumblr post with images and some discussion.

Hedgehog and Polar Bear - Nami Nishikawa (3)
-- Cat (Hedgehog and Polar Bear)
-- Hedgehog (Hedgehog and Polar Bear)
-- Polar Bear (Hedgehog and Polar Bear)

The artist's Tumblr: https://namiharinezumi.tumblr.com/
My pinboard with many of my favorites: https://www.pinterest.com/lferion/tiggies/

Not my nominations, but I think these are also art fandoms:

Le Fruit Defendu - Auguste Toulmouche: http://womenreading.tumblr.com/post/160903728427

Lisa Frank - Works (4)
-- Dancing Dolphins (Lisa Frank)
-- Hunter (Lisa Frank)
-- Playtime Kittens (Lisa Frank)
-- Rainbow Chaser (Lisa Frank)

Lisa Frank's facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/LisaFrankOfficial/

Edited 2017-09-28 03:35 (UTC)

Oh wow, thank you for all these! I can't think how I came to miss the Toulmouche painting - he was even nominated last year, with a different artwork. I've added them all.

You are very welcome! Thank you for doing this -- I'm putting together the songs/albums/music vids post, and recalling just how much work it is!

Another one -- listed in Books & Literature and not a piece or artist I'm familiar with, so I'm glad it got mentioned in the signup post comments!

Blue Plate Special - Jeff Lee Johnson
DeviantArt: https://jeffleejohnson.deviantart.com/art/Blue-Plate-Special-661961724

Please delete this comment if it messes with your order or is otherwise out of place. I was wondering if you'd like me to add one or more tags to the community that would be useful for this post or similar ones?

Absolutely - that would be very helpful. (And if you don't mind I'll leave this thread up - I made a specific corrections thread so that any extra art fandoms I'd missed wouldn't have their pimping threads pushed too far down, and I should have thought to make a general thread as well for the same reason.)

Sure. I'm drawing a bit of a blank on labels - do you have any ideas? 'art fandoms' maybe? I'm trying to think of something that would denote 'here is a collection of fandoms that appeal to a specific interest', but, you know, shorter.

I was hoping you would have already decided that! I'm not really sure either. Maybe something like 'fandom type: art', to allow for matching tags for historical fandoms, or radio plays, or horror, or whatever other types people might like to post collections of? Though 'art fandoms' is more euphonious. How are you thinking of organising the tags? Or will there be few enough people can quickly glance down the whole list?

fandom type: art sounds perfectly practical, actually, especially since we can then add fandom type: pretty much anything else that people might want to group. I'll start with that. Thanks.

How are you thinking of organising the tags?

I'll... get back to you on that.

:-) Though in my experience, with any sort of data organisation, it doesn't matter however carefully you design the system, how much thought you put into exactly how it will be used, into making a flexible yet useful system ... just as soon as it has been used it enough it would be a right pain to change, you realise it's all wrong and should have been set up quite differently from the start. It seems to be a general rule.

"No system of categorization survives contact with a data set", it is known. ^!^

Exactly!

Although I love when art just does a really good job of portraying a scene, the artworks that stick with me the strongest are the ones that bypass that and go straight to communicating on an emotional level. That's very much an individual reaction, so who knows if others will feel the same way...but for me, "Something I Must Do" makes me feel so hopeful and excited and worried for these two fish! They're both so brave: the one explorer fish, going off to face the unknown in an environment that it can't naturally survive in; and the other (lover? assistant? co-worker?) staying behind to continue their work.

This work seriously grabbed me as soon as I saw it...I think I went from "casually looking for one more t-shirt to fill out my order" to "not only buying this shirt but leapfrogging it to the top of my list of possible Yuletide noms" in less than an hour. :-)

This is the tumblr conversation you'll find about the posters - if you scrolled down from the images linked, you'll have seen it already, but I might as well put it here directly as well.

jackviolet:
So as a reaction to the recently passed anti-gay laws, Russian gay rights activists have taken various Soviet propaganda posters and adapted them into pride posters instead.

Mostly they did this just by putting rainbow flags everywhere.

But I gotta say, a lot of the original Soviet propaganda posters were pretty damn gay already.

These are unedited Sino-Soviet propaganda posters. With their insistent and repetitive slogans of “Always together!” and “Friends forever!” and the aggressive hand-holding and hugging, I gotta say the Russian and Chinese guys in these posters seem like quite the committed couple.

They have kids and everything! Lookit their little blended family.

They love working together, relaxing together, and reading the works of Lenin to each other. On weekends they garden in their matching overalls.

Rainbow flags would almost be superfluous.

hopeasielu:
#what’s better than this #guys being comrades

hello-hayati:
I for reals thought this was a visual story of guys meeting at work and then hitting it off at a series of dates til they eventually got married and had kids.

Tumblr post about this painting.

Basically what I was thinking when I nominated this was, "Five minutes before the lesbian orgy."

But they could be looking at science textbooks, they could be laughing at things Proper Young Ladies were not supposed to find funny, they could be researching for their slash fics. It's the cheerful, collegial attitude toward getting past society's limits on what they're supposed to be accessing that's the draw, and that feels very relevant to fandom - the two girls leaning against each other and reading, the smirking girl in the back (with the key to the book cupboards, maybe? It's hard to see. Or maybe she's going to go tell on them.), the girl on the ladder who's looking worriedly over her shoulder but isn't going to let that stop her.

And of course there's also their potential future suitors referred to in the quote from a critic in the linked tumblr post, who may get something of a surprise on the wedding night...

Edited 2017-09-28 22:09 (UTC)

One of the things that hit me with this painting the first time I saw it was the understated creepy nature. What is this world? Why is the tentacle creature hiding under the table? What is the POV person writing about?

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Artworks in the 2017 Tagset

1947 Heidelberg Photographs series - Walter Sanders

Beautiful Losers II - Jack Vettriano

Dixit (Card Game)

Re: Dixit (Card Game)

Re: Dixit (Card Game)

Elements - Experiments in Character Design - Kaycie D.

Europe After the Rain II - Max Ernst (Painting)

Flodskörden || Things from the Flood - Simon Stålenhag

The Garden Door - William Bruce Ellis Ranken

Re: The Garden Door - William Bruce Ellis Ranken

Night Sun Tarot Deck

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Omar Rayyan - Works

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Shadowscapes Tarot

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Space Cats - Bronwyn Schuster

Corrections, Missed Fandoms etc

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General discussion

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Something I Must Do (Woot T-Shirt)

Re: Something I Must Do (Woot T-Shirt)

Sino-Soviet Propaganda Posters

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Hedgehog and Polar Bear - Nami Nishikawa

Le Fruit Defendu - Auguste Toulmouche

Re: Le Fruit Defendu - Auguste Toulmouche

Re: Le Fruit Defendu - Auguste Toulmouche

Lisa Frank - Works

Blue Plate Special - Jeff Lee Johnson

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