References between Art Movements

node type: art movements, aggregated from painters and sculptors from "The Art Book" (Phaidon Press, London, 1994)
edge type: references between art movements, aggregated from references between the artists
number of nodes: 46 (aggregated from 425 artists; 75 artists are left out because no assignment to an art movement is available)
number of edges: 385 (aggregated from 1966 references between artists)
source: Frank van Ham, Jarke J. van Wijk: Interactive Visualization of Small World Graphs. In Proc. InfoVis 2004, pages 199-206

The drawings of the edge-repulsion energy model (where the repulsion of each movement is proportional to its number of references) and the node-repulsion energy model (where the repulsion of each movement is proportional to its number of artists) are very similar, and almost one-dimensional. The main dimension roughly corresponds to time (from bottom to top). The modern movements are separated from the earlier movements (lower group, from Gothic to Romanticism). The modern movements are again divided into the central group around impressionism and expressionism, and the upper group which contains styles that are mostly later in time and more non-figurative or abstract.

 

Edge-repulsion LinLog model
(click on the picture to view VRML file)

 Node-repulsion LinLog model (for comparison) Fruchterman-Reingold model (for comparison)

 

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