MOMA’s “Inventing Abstraction” digital exhibit is one of my favorites I’ve seen so far. MOMA presents a large map of abstract artists from 1910-1925. The entire presentation is a massive web, with hundreds of lines connecting various artists to each other.
When clicking on an artist, the interface zooms into them and re-establishes the web so that only the most significant connections appear. There is also a descriptive bio of that artist to the right. The connections represent acquaintances.
In this visual, the notes are the different artists and the edges are the lines that connect them. Red-highlighted artists are the more popular and significant ones and are more centralized. Pablo Picasso, Vasily Kandinsky, Guillaume Apollinaire, and Theo Von Doesburg are all highlighted in red.
The interactions this visual provides is clicking artist names to see their relations and biography as well as information on their significant works:
