Ah, but I’m not familiar with Alma-Tadema, and would have had to do a complicated reverse image search to find out. So you are doing your followers (okay, me) a service by adding the attribution in case they do want to know who the artist is.
Yeah; that’s pretty much why I like artist attributions on art posts: to help me make that association, to learn to recognize the artists that I like and be able to research them more easily.
But I also know that I tend toward obsessive labeling and marshaling of metadata, and that when I’m not super-excited about a subject, even my own zealous focus on labeling (from when I _was_ excited) comes off as a little odd. Or more than a little.
Part of it is the thrill of the hunt, too. I do worry that aside from any aesthetic harm I might be doing by adding attribution, I’m also depriving others of the joy of discovery, since for those who want to figure it out that process is a lot of fun.
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