VOCABULARY

The Advay Mengle // Fine Art Vocabulary is used to help classify, describe, and label Advay Mengle’s artworks.

The Vocabulary ontology is constructed to serve that primarily artistic purpose, as opposed to chemical or physical precision or completeness. Work is preferentially classified by the most specific term available, and by Material (what the art is made of) over Equipment (what was used to make the art) over Technique/Process (how the art was made) - for example, an acrylic painting is generally labeled with acrylic paint material instead of brush-based creation. When art cataloging custom deviates from the above, we generally follow those customs here - for example, hand-made prints are generally labeled with their process, like linocut instead of ink, and drawings sometimes with equipment over material, like colored pencils over their often-unspecified composition. Terms may have multiple parents (an oil stick is oil paint, wax, and painting instrument), and the primary parent (here, oil paint) is used for labeling works.

Work counts in the hierarchy distinguish between works classified directly at that term, versus works classified at a child or descendant term (X works vs Y total works). For the many Mengle works not listed on this website, they are mentioned by catalog ID in the term’s entry, but not counted as works in the hierarchy nor listed by title.

Contains information from Art & Architecture Thesaurus ® (AAT) which is made available under the ODC Attribution License. While mappings to the Getty Research Institute’s AAT are provided where applicable, they are necessarily approximate.