Project #10 Women Art Collected in 150 Years

Description

For this project, I used the Metropolitan museum API. My goal was access to the information about gender and number of art acquired per year. I selected 6 years through 150 years since the MET opened for the first time in 1870. First I wanted to create a timeline where people could go through images, but I decided to create a abstract concept of shapes in movement, based on the selected parameters (years, gender, number of artworks). Men and women artwork have their own geometrical shape, it's own color, and the number of art per year will define the size of the shape. The year defines the Y axis, and the gender the x axis. Finally, the shapes move around the canvas in a way to show the battle of looking for women's more and equal participation in the art world. Sometimes the squares (Men shape) will go over the circles (women shape) and vice versa. Unfortunatelly, the men's shape size that represent the number of artwork acquired by the museum, still way more than the women's work.

Design Process

To create my visualization, I upload the Met API on p5js and accessed to the data. I collected the data and created a JSON file to organized and access the data. I created the visualization using class and functions.

Reflection

JSON file organization will affect the way I code. I found effective to organized my code through classes or functions, so that I could access to the information and create the visualization.