Yes, I agree that the problem that fanlore archives the fanart whenever someone talks about it (which makes sense from an illustrative standpoint, but not so much from the artist's standpoint of wanting people to go to their own page), is a problem that stands against making pages for each fanart piece. After all in much of fandom when people put fanart on their own site without asking the artist it is seen as art theft not "fair use" as the wiki policy sees it.
However the current category structure makes it just hard to find articles related to fanart, even as activity. I mean, there is a "Visual Art" category but the vast majority of entries in that category are zines that have a lot of scanned zine artwork as far as I can tell. Which isn't wrongly categorized, but if you want to find the articles that talk about fanart as a practice, it's just hard to find anything.
Though in part that also is because there are just very few people who talk about art in the wiki it seems. Way back I started a few more art specific articles like Portrait (art), but except for a few zine art examples it's not grown (same for Still Life (art) and Landscape as well, but admittedly those are niches for fanart). And while art is mentioned on many trope pages, it is usually just put into the examples section, and nobody talks about the art.
The wingfic page is a good example of this marginalization: The article name and intro paragraph makes it sound as if the page was to talk only about fic, even though there is a ton of artwork on the page and it is a really popular art trope. And then at the end there is a gallery stuck for eyecandy.
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However the current category structure makes it just hard to find articles related to fanart, even as activity. I mean, there is a "Visual Art" category but the vast majority of entries in that category are zines that have a lot of scanned zine artwork as far as I can tell. Which isn't wrongly categorized, but if you want to find the articles that talk about fanart as a practice, it's just hard to find anything.
Though in part that also is because there are just very few people who talk about art in the wiki it seems. Way back I started a few more art specific articles like Portrait (art), but except for a few zine art examples it's not grown (same for Still Life (art) and Landscape as well, but admittedly those are niches for fanart). And while art is mentioned on many trope pages, it is usually just put into the examples section, and nobody talks about the art.
The wingfic page is a good example of this marginalization: The article name and intro paragraph makes it sound as if the page was to talk only about fic, even though there is a ton of artwork on the page and it is a really popular art trope. And then at the end there is a gallery stuck for eyecandy.