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The interactive website, Inventing Abstraction<\/a>, visually represents the connections abstract artists had to other artists, writers, and performers\u00a0 between 1910-1925. The website is reliant on it’s sources which are the information of each artists represented on the site. These sources are from common histories and research\u00a0of each of the individuals\u00a0and on how these individuals were connected or inspired by one another. In order to begin reverse engineering this website, one must consider the goal of the website designer in order to create a user friendly experience for visitors to interact and learn from the page.<\/p>\n I am unsure what specific platform was used to create the site, but it is presented to the viewer much like a sociogram that a communications researcher would create. The programmer would first need to create a template in which multiple nodes could be represented, then begin drawing connections between them. When the user hovers over a name, the name is enlarged along with each of its connections.<\/p>\n The interface of the website is created, as previously stated, as a sociogram in which each individual is represented by a node that states their name. Each name is connected to another node by a line. This creates a complex digram of connections between each artist. When the user clicks on one of the nodes, a new window pops up in which the user can see a more intimate sociogram of connections. In addition to the diagram presented, on the right side of the display screen contains important information to further understanding the artist and the work they produced. This right side display contains the dates the artist was alive, where they were born, where they worked, artists interests, a truncated biography, and examples of their art. When the user clicks on example artwork thumbnail, a new page appears that depicts a larger verison of the work, it’s title, date, and the medium used. This presentation, I believe, is quite successful as art is often a product of influence. Abstract art, as mentioned on the website, began with just a few number of abstract artists who portrayed their world in a completely new way than previously seen, and then quickly expanded into a new art movement. The website fully examines how this expansion occurred through the visualization of connections and therefore inspiration. Because of the influence artists had to one another through geography, time period, or personal connection created what Art Historians now refer to as Modern Art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The interactive website, Inventing Abstraction, visually represents the connections abstract artists had to other artists, writers, and performers\u00a0 between 1910-1925. The website is reliant on it’s sources which are … Continue reading “Inventing Abstraction”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}