How would you tag this image?

TAGS

• party
• bar
• smoking
• black tie
• multi-racial
• men and women
• colorful
• crowded
• seated

You would find this image if you searched the Guggenheim for these terms:

• party
• seated

But not

• bar
• smoking, smoke, or smokers
• black tie
• multi-racial
• men and women (or man, or woman)
• colorful
• crowd, crowded

Here are a few other misc terms that would also lead you to this image (and many others):

• disjointed
• émigrés (if you took the accents off)
• ambiguities, a popular one
• somber

Most of these terms were pulled from the several paragraphs that describe each item. This is the best place to find keywords, but it is by no means comprehensive. They were probably not written with keyword searching in mind.

This is Paris Society, 1931. Oil on canvas, 43 x 69 1/8 inches. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. 70.1927. Max Beckmann source