We've had a few of these recently:
These are great questions and an area I'd like to see a lot more of on the site, both in questions and in more and better answers for such questions.
But that lofty vision aside, I'd like to help 'em out with some helpful tags. I put semantics on those, but I'm not entirely happy with that. The only alternatives I can think of are a bit unnatural — visual-language, for example, and I'm not too keen on meaning or theme.
Any ideas?
(More rambling: my train of thought from my drive home today. Downvote if you want me to stop.)
I don't really understand and can't predict what kinds of questions this initiative would lead to, so I had a hard time wrapping the topic in a description. Since I can't describe it, this led me to think of the tag indescribable. Along the same lines, perhaps, and if we can permanently wrap a tag in italics, maybe something along the lines of je-ne-sais-quoi would capture that indescribable something we're trying to reduce to a tag.
Okay, neither of those are great, but let's keep going. I still don't know how to define this thing, but maybe that's okay: we're talking about the artistic side of photography, not the technical side, so there may not be an easy way to succinctly describe what we are considering. If we can't tackle this objectively -- well, that's just it, this isn't something to observe objectively, so maybe we should use the tag subjective.
Some thoughts, if you don't mind me rambling (which IMO is important in naming discussions; showing and spelling out your thought process helps you understand how you're getting to where you're trying to get):
Okay, normally if I'm trying to name something, I want to talk about it for a few sentences or paragraphs. In the process of defining it by wrapping a lot of words around it to uniquely identify this thing, I can often identify the right word in which its meaning can be encapsulated. So if 'a picture is worth a thousand words,' instead of drawing a picture (or in this case, just linking to 2 examples), maybe you should write a paragraph or a few paragraphs defining what it is you want to see. I bet the right word will become obvious as a result of that exercise.
(Also, once you create the tag, some questions will be tailored to fit the tag. Since naming it well now will influence questions to fit that name, it's useful to spend the time coming up with the right name that describes the right thing.)
Both the linked questions appear to be about trying to convey a certain meaning/sense/theme. Outside of providing a caption or commentary to go along with the image, the only way to convey such is to provide clues to be interpreted by the viewer. These clues are subject to the viewer's culture, experiences, etc., and so may be interpreted differently than was intended by the artist - or even completely overlooked.
What about an [interpretation] tag?
These questions are looking for ways to express certain ideas or feelings, so perhaps the tag could be expressing?
