| These indexes present the Barewalls collection of art reproductions, from the perspective of art history. Tens and thousands of museum art pieces of all epochs, schools, and approaches are represented here. Rigorous documentation of all known art categories within the collection is important. Although many of the images fit into established historical genres, there are many genres that are less documented in the journals of art history: Charts and Collections, Vintage Advertising, Sports Panoramas, to name a few. Barewalls is a four-way intersection of art, popular culture, décor and commerce. This collision of user-needs produces a creative and exciting image indexing environment -- posters and prints cannot rely on traditional "academic-styled" art categorization alone. Barewalls has classified both traditional museum art as well as popular imagery, such as, motivational prints and magazine covers. |
