This project visualizes Tate Gallery artwork production from 1940–1949 to examine how World War II and its aftermath influenced artistic output using digital humanities methods.
This project visualizes Tate Gallery artwork production from 1940–1949 to examine how World War II and its aftermath influenced artistic output using digital humanities methods.
I think your midterm blog shows a clear sense of your interests and how you’re bringing them together in your work this term. The way you describe your project idea makes it feel specific and grounded, which helps readers see where you’re going with it.
This is a clear and well-structured midterm. I like how you connected the Tate dataset to historical context, showing how World War II affected artistic production. The workflow, from cleaning the data in Google Sheets to creating a Flourish time series chart, is easy to follow, and embedding it in WordPress makes the project accessible. I also appreciate your discussion of both the insights and limitations of using museum metadata. Overall, it is a thoughtful application of digital humanities methods with a clean and readable presentation.
I used the Tate gallery artist data which is similar but probably different in terms of what to analyze, so I thought your way of exploring such data in terms of trends was super interesting. Your graph looks super clean and it really displays how the war might have impacted the art industry in general (although I wonder why 1944 is normal for just that year).