{ "model": { "rank": 1925, "code": "thing-q36649", "model_id": "vr.tr.visual-arts", "name": "visual arts", "purpose": "Let an agent handle visual arts by medium, movement, artists, works and rights, with sourced attribution.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Information and virtual systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "INF", "domain": "INF.KNW", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q36649/", "tier": 2, "score": 122, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "seascape", "photocollage", "emoji art", "Māori visual arts and crafts", "digital compositing", "computer graphics", "anime/manga style", "alpha compositing", "video game graphics", "vector based video game graphics", "bird's-eye view", "tile graphics", "isometric view", "navy (print)", "marine print", "animal sculpture", "sound collage", "object art", "spamwave", "visual arts of the Earth", "graphics", "illustrative arts", "scenario (drawing)", "figure assembly sculptural", "plastic arts", "music and visual art", "lens-based visual arts", "food art", "Sos-art", "asemic writing", "figurative art", "Tape art", "collaging", "ecological art", "Imaginative art", "Lumia art", "book art", "art of drawing", "Moche visual art", "environmental art" ], "aliasCount": 100, "merged": 100, "knownIn": 122, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q36649", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36649", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-11T08:11:06Z", "providers": [ "Claude" ], "breadth": "written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify", "pass": 2, "wave": 1, "engine": "claude" }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q36649", "registryId": "vr.tr.visual-arts", "name": "visual arts", "version": "0.2.0-wave.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "INF.KNW" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q36649/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.visual-arts", "name": "visual arts", "purpose": "Let an agent handle visual arts by medium, movement, artists, works and rights, with sourced attribution.", "definition": "Art forms that create works primarily visual in nature, such as painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, photography, film, design, crafts and digital and computer-generated art.", "what_it_is_for": "Expression, communication, beauty, documentation and culture.", "affordances": [ "identify medium and movement", "attribute works to artists", "describe images accessibly", "respect rights in reproductions" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Primarily visual", "Many media and traditions", "Fine and applied", "Protected by copyright and moral rights" ], "appearance": "Images, objects and installations seen by viewers.", "visual_identification": [ "Media such as painting or photography", "Movements and styles", "Indigenous visual arts and crafts traditions" ], "physical_properties": [], "families_and_kinds": [ "painting and drawing", "sculpture", "printmaking", "photography and film", "design and crafts", "digital and computer art" ], "related_models": [ { "relation": "is a kind of", "target": "art", "why": "category" }, { "relation": "includes", "target": "painting and photography", "why": "media" }, { "relation": "is shown in", "target": "museum and gallery", "why": "venues" }, { "relation": "is protected by", "target": "copyright", "why": "law" } ], "identifiers": [], "standards_and_regulation": [ "Copyright and moral rights", "Artist resale right", "Cultural property law" ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Misattribution", "Reproducing works without rights", "Appropriating cultural heritage" ], "in_scope": [], "out_of_scope": [], "characteristics": [] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "medium", "name": "Medium", "description": "Which art form.", "rationale": "Medium shapes the work.", "layers": [ { "id": "form", "name": "Form", "description": "Painting, sculpture.", "findings": [ { "id": "form-finding", "name": "Form", "description": "Medium.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which medium or form is meant?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "Which specific entry fits?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "technique", "name": "Technique", "description": "Methods.", "findings": [ { "id": "technique-finding", "name": "Technique", "description": "Technique.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which techniques are used?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "How can they be learned?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "works", "name": "Works", "description": "Artists and works.", "rationale": "Attribution needs sources.", "layers": [ { "id": "attribution", "name": "Attribution", "description": "Who made it.", "findings": [ { "id": "attribution-finding", "name": "Attribution", "description": "Attribution.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who made the work, and how secure is the attribution?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Where is it held?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement", "name": "Movement", "description": "Style.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-finding", "name": "Movement", "description": "Movement.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which movement or tradition does it belong to?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "Which period?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "access", "name": "Access", "description": "Seeing art.", "rationale": "Art should be accessible.", "layers": [ { "id": "description", "name": "Description", "description": "Alt text.", "findings": [ { "id": "description-finding", "name": "Description", "description": "Accessible description.", "questions": [ { "text": "How should the work be described for blind or low-vision people?", "kind": "action" }, { "text": "Is the description accurate?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "venues", "name": "Venues", "description": "Museums and galleries.", "findings": [ { "id": "venues-finding", "name": "Venues", "description": "Venues.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where can the work be seen?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Is entry free?", "kind": "measurement" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "rights", "name": "Rights", "description": "Copyright and culture.", "rationale": "Rights govern use.", "layers": [ { "id": "copyright", "name": "Copyright", "description": "Reproduction.", "findings": [ { "id": "copyright-finding", "name": "Copyright", "description": "Copyright.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the work in copyright, and who licenses it?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Can an image be reused?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "culture", "name": "Culture", "description": "Heritage.", "findings": [ { "id": "culture-finding", "name": "Culture", "description": "Cultural heritage.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the work tied to a community with rights over its use?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "text": "Were protocols followed?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Should media be separate entries?", "How should works be linked?", "How should Indigenous arts be credited?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 4, "layers": 8, "findings": 8, "questions": 16 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "discipline or field of knowledge", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a visual arts, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Let an agent handle visual arts by medium, movement, artists, works and rights, with sourced attribution.", "characteristics": { "substance": "information", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "read and interpreted" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: seascape, photocollage, emoji art, Māori visual arts and crafts, digital compositing, computer graphics, anime/manga style, alpha compositing, video game graphics, vector based video game graphics, bird's-eye view, tile graphics.", "100 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 122 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is." ], "openQuestionsForResearch": [ "Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?", "What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?", "Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a visual arts, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "content that has to be carried by something else", "physicalCharacter": [ "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "read it and act on what it says" ], "howItIsRecognised": [], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "seascape", "photocollage", "emoji art", "Māori visual arts and crafts", "digital compositing", "computer graphics", "anime/manga style", "alpha compositing", "video game graphics", "vector based video game graphics", "bird's-eye view", "tile graphics" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 122 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 100 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one visual arts from another, and a visual arts from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.", "layers": [ { "id": "naming-and-identifiers", "name": "Names and identifiers", "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.", "findings": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases", "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names", "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.", "questions": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a visual arts, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a visual arts, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a visual arts is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a visual arts, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a visual arts, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a visual arts is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a visual arts sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a visual arts, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a visual arts, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a visual arts is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a visual arts from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a visual arts, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a visual arts, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a visual arts is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a visual arts passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a visual arts between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a visual arts, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a visual arts, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a visual arts is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a visual arts, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a visual arts is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a visual arts, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a visual arts, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a visual arts is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "content-and-access", "name": "Content, encoding and access", "description": "What a visual arts says, how it is encoded and who may read it.", "rationale": "An informational thing carries content that can be copied, versioned and withheld, none of which its physical carrier explains.", "layers": [ { "id": "content-and-encoding", "name": "Content and encoding", "description": "The content itself, its format and its language.", "findings": [ { "id": "content-and-format", "name": "Content, format and language", "description": "What a visual arts contains and in what form it is held.", "questions": [ { "id": "content-and-format-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the content of a visual arts, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the content of a visual arts, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the content of a visual arts is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "access-and-rights", "name": "Access, rights and retention", "description": "Who may read, copy or change it, and for how long it is kept.", "findings": [ { "id": "access-rules", "name": "Access rules and retention", "description": "The permissions attached to a visual arts and the period it survives.", "questions": [ { "id": "access-rules-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes access to a visual arts, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about access to a visual arts, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once access to a visual arts is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "subject-and-method", "name": "Subject matter and method", "description": "What visual arts studies and how it establishes anything.", "rationale": "A field is identified by its questions and its methods, and those are what distinguish it from the fields next to it.", "layers": [ { "id": "subject", "name": "Subject matter", "description": "The questions it takes as its own.", "findings": [ { "id": "subject-record", "name": "Questions and objects of study", "description": "What it is about, stated so a neighbouring field can be told apart.", "questions": [ { "id": "subject-record-q01", "text": "What questions and objects does visual arts take as its own?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "subject-record-q02", "text": "Which questions does it share with a neighbouring field, and who claims them?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "method", "name": "Method and evidence", "description": "How claims are established and what counts as evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "method-record", "name": "Methods and standards of evidence", "description": "The methods used and what they are taken to establish.", "questions": [ { "id": "method-record-q01", "text": "By what methods does visual arts establish claims, and what counts as sufficient evidence?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "method-record-q02", "text": "What kind of claim can this field not settle, and where should an agent look instead?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "institutions-and-classification", "name": "Institutions and classification", "description": "Where visual arts is practised and how catalogues place it.", "rationale": "The institutional footprint is the evidence that a field exists as a field rather than as a topic.", "layers": [ { "id": "institutions", "name": "Institutional markers", "description": "Societies, journals, degrees and departments.", "findings": [ { "id": "institution-record", "name": "Bodies and venues", "description": "Where the field organises itself.", "questions": [ { "id": "institution-record-q01", "text": "Which societies, journals or degrees mark visual arts as an established field?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "institution-record-q02", "text": "What would show that it is emerging or dissolving rather than established?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification", "name": "Classification schemes", "description": "Where library and research classifications put it.", "findings": [ { "id": "classification-record", "name": "Codes and their disagreements", "description": "The classification codes that place it, and where they differ.", "questions": [ { "id": "classification-record-q01", "text": "Which classification schemes place visual arts, under what codes?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "classification-record-q02", "text": "Where do those schemes disagree about its scope?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a visual arts came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a visual arts and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a visual arts, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a visual arts, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a visual arts is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a visual arts is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a visual arts, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a visual arts, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a visual arts is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 14, "questions": 38 } } } }