Tate Artists Non-UK

Visualization by Yemi Shin

Sources:

A subset of the metadata (~214) for around 3500 artists of the artworks that Tate owns or jointly owns with the National Galleries of Scotland as part of ARTIST ROOMS.

Processes:

  1. Used OpenRefine to clean the ‘date’ Column.
    • Remove non-numerical words such as ‘born’, or ‘c’.
    • Separated the single ‘date’ column that looks like ‘1900-1960’ to ‘dateOfBirth’ and ‘dateOfDeath’ columns
    • Turned the dates into numbers
  2. Used Google Sheets extension ‘Geocode by Awesome Table’ to get the geocoordinates of textual locations. For example, changed ‘Paris, France’ to two separate columns ‘latitude’ and ‘longitude’ (48.85, 2.35)
  3. Used Palladio to explore the relationships between date of birth, date of death, and different places of birth and death.
Data exploration with Palladio
Data exploration with Palladio

Presentation:

I used Flourish to create a story map that makes use of two different visualizations: 1) Isao Hashimotos’ ‘2053’ style dot map with a timeline of authors’ place of birth and years of birth and death, and 2) connection map illustrating the artists’ travels (aka difference between their place of birth and death).

Significance:

What this visualization helps us see is the fact that the spread of surrealism was a deeply international affair. There were artists from all over the world who were involved in making art in this genre. What we can also see is how much these artists traveled. There are numerous connections across continents, and many of these artists finished their lives in countries that were not their birth country. From this we see the extent to which the spread and development of surrealism was the outcome of decades of international exchange.

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