Based on MoMa collection.
CASA, UCL
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Time Line
The bubble map below outlines the total number of arts created per given country. Each bubble illustrates the absolute value for any country by the designated decade (from 1600 to 2010). The slider centred on the map allows you to navigate between the decades. The map is enabled with three layers, reflecting the values of the art objects for genders and the total number. As additional notes to your visual experience, the majority of the collection is traced back to North American and European continents: 46, 2% and 45, 4% respectively. However, drilling down to top 15 countries, the arts by USA artists count for 45% from the collection; followed by France and Germany with 28% & 7% respectively. The map allows to draw many curious observations for each country, especially considering the events and conditions beyond the numbers. For instance, MOMA's most collection from Russia dates from 1910s and 1920s (41 & 28 % respectively); which coincides with the peak period in the number of creative associations in Russia as part of the USSR (Koltsova, 2011). We would like here also refer to Reedy (1988), repeating that ‘art objects are internally heterogeneous and individually distinct in composition; form; history; which necessities attentive consideration of the statistical procedure and careful reflection on the given results.
The network map models collaboration between artists of different nationalities as edges in a global network, where each country is a node in the network. A total of 2787 collaborations were detected within a time span of 158 years. Explore how the number of collaboration is changing over time by clicking on different arches. The width of each arch corresponds with the total number of collaborations between a given pair of countries. The four most collaborative pairs are France and Hungary, France and United States, Hungary and United States and Argentina and United States. The prominent centrality of Hungary within this global network of artists is quite surprising: while MoMA's collection includes 7758 American artists, it includes only 108 Hungarian artists who collaborate intensively with other artists around the world.
More inforation of the RGB color palette can be found on this page .
Twenty Countries with the Most Artworks--Museum of Modern Art Collection
Gender Ratio of Artists in Seven Continent--Museum of Modern Art Collection
Ten Formats and Their Favorite Countries--Museum of Modern Art Collection
This so-called streamgraph duplicates the data from the map but allowing to observe flows of over the whole period of time with the respect to their proportions.You can notice that excluding arts created in USA, the majority of the collection traced back to the period from 1900-1960s. Notably, after the 1960's the percentage of non-US arts starts decreasing dramatically. Moreover, considering each decade from 1800 to 2010 as one unit, the 1960s and 1970s holds 15% and 13% respectively to the total collection distribution.
This bar chart illustrates the gender distribution on the number of the created art pieces grouped per continents. You can observe significant gender gap variance in created art pieces. The dominant majority of MoMA's collection, 82%, were created by male while 18% by female; which is a consistent trend across all the continents.
Observed gender disproportion stimulated to build the chart that explains which art dimension and in which countries active female participation is observed. The each bubble of this chart corresponds to the art top-ranked classification and filled with the bubbles assigned to the highly ranked countries for the number of artscreated by woman exclusively. You can visually conclude that “Print”, “Photograph” and “Drawing” are types where females participated most within the collection. Meanwhile, top-5 countries in terms of female participations are USA; Germany; Russia; United Kingdom; Japan. To explain so-called “Mies van der Rohe Archive” dimension it is a special project from Germany established in 1968 that supports women (van der Rohe, 1975).
Based on MoMa collection.
CASA, UCL