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hi Margaret, Great questions. The Tate Modern has catalogued their images in the ways you're asking. The downside is you have to know the metadata is there in each record to exploit it. I'm fascinated that they've tagged their artworks by emotion. Find an individual artwork and scroll down to EXPLORE at the bottom of the record. There are links to other images, concepts or topics "like this one". Explore this George Frederic Watts <http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/watts-hope-n01640> record. You can also start with a keyword search in artworks <http://www.tate.org.uk/search?type=artwork> for particular concept...such as hope <http://www.tate.org.uk/search?type=object&q=hope>. Best, Ellen Ellen Petraits Research & Instruction Librarian <http://risd.libguides.com/prf.php?account_id=4306> Coordinator of Graduate Library Instruction Rhode Island School of Design 401.709.5905 library.risd.edu On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 4:04 PM, Margaret Ericson <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hello all, > > > > I read a lot about how to serve the information /visual literacy needs of > studio artists or the students in studio programs. I’m often challenged by > questions posed by studio artists on how to use our subscription image > databases to search for conceptual topics (e.g. identity or aesthetics) or > those that reflect formal aspects of art works (color, perspective, > proportion, distortion, etc.). Artstor is often frustrating for this user > group when framing searches outside of the art history paradigm. Bridgeman > Education is somewhat better in terms of metadata, but other features are > not as user-friendly. Outside of Google, are there other image databases > you recommend that retrieve results from a more conceptual framework, > beyond author, title, museum collection, medium, country, time period. Will > Artstor or Bridgeman be developing a “see more like this” feature that > would extend the possibilities of searching beyond one or two known items > that do fit the bill once identified? > > > > I showed the painting faculty member the search feature of the Met’s *Timeline > of Art History*, doing a search on “distorted still lifes” and she was > happy to see a rich collection of images and references to the essays on > cubism, fauvism, etc. Do you have any other strategies for using our major > subscription image databases, or using other virtual means to search more > abstract concepts by which a student could assemble a corpus of images? > > > > *Margaret D. Ericson|Arts Librarian and Copyright Liaison|Bixler Art and > Music Library|Colby College Libraries|5662 Mayflower Hill|Waterville, Maine > 04901|* > > *[log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>* > > *(207) 859-5662* > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining > ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/membership/join-arlisna Send > administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to > [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: > http://lsv.arlisna.org Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy > Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/membership/join-arlisna Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.arlisna.org Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~