Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings/Made from material

For paintings we use made from material (made from material (P186)) to indicate what materials were used to make the painting. Most paintings will have some sort of paint (Q174219) and a painting support (Q861259) (which is qualified with applies to part (P518) set to painting support (Q861259)) to which the paint is applied. Of course more complicated cases exists especially for more recent paintings.

Common paint edit

paint (Q174219) is rarely used directly. Usually the specific type of paint is used:

Common painting surface edit

painting support (Q861259) is never used directly. Usually subclasses of it are used:

(needs to be expanded a bit)

For secondary surfaces like oak panel (Q106857823) in "oil on canvas on oak panel" the qualifier mount (Q107105674) should be used.

Common combinations edit

Description Paint Painting surface
oil on canvas oil paint (Q296955) canvas (Q12321255)
oil on panel oil paint (Q296955) panel (Q106857709)

See also Top material combinations.

Normalization edit

The material modeling for paintings got a bit messy so this is being cleaned up. We do a bit of normalization to reduce redundancy and improve the quality of the data.

To be replaced Will be replaced with
canvas (Q4259259): extremely heavy-duty plain-woven fabric canvas (Q12321255): painting surface made of extremely heavy-duty plain-woven fabric
panel (Q1348059): thin wooden plank used structurally or aesthetically panel (Q106857709): painting support made of a thin wooden plank
Missing qualifier applies to part (P518) -> painting support (Q861259)) on Add qualifier applies to part (P518) -> painting support (Q861259)) on
cardboard (Q389782): heavy-duty paper of various strengths cardboard (Q18668582): painting surface made of heavy-duty paper of various strengths
gouache painting (Q21281546): type of painting; an artwork that uses gouache paint gouache paint (Q204330): type of paint
watercolor painting (Q18761202): flat surface artistically covered with watercolor paint watercolor paint (Q22915256): material consisting of pigment suspended in water to form a transparent painting medium
watercolor (Q50030): practice of applying watercolor to a surface watercolor paint (Q22915256): material consisting of pigment suspended in water to form a transparent painting medium
oil painting (Q56676227): surface artistically covered with oil paint oil paint (Q296955): type of slow-drying paint that consists of particles of pigment suspended in a drying oil
oil painting (Q174705): process of painting with pigments that are bound with a medium of drying oil oil paint (Q296955): type of slow-drying paint that consists of particles of pigment suspended in a drying oil

To do edit