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Creating, Visualizing, Analyzing, and Comparing Series of Artworks
Carlos Monroy, Richard Furuta, and Enrique Mallen
Outline
• The On-line Picasso Project
• Timeline-based visualizations
• Visualizing and creating series
• Conclusions and future work
• Questions and answers
The On-line Picasso Project
• Is a Web-based reasoned catalogue
• Containing about 7000 photographs of Picasso’s artworks
• A detailed biography of Pablo Picasso, with linked photographs and maps
• A list of bibliographical references about Picasso’s works and life
• A collection of news items and articles from newspapers, magazines, and journals
A reasoned catalogue
• illustrations of the works
• information about title, time and place of execution, medium employed, dimensions, current location of the work, former owners
• past exhibitions in museums and/or galleries, previous illustrations in books, etc.
Or “catalogue raisonné” is an extensive compilation of the works done by an artist, including:
A reasoned catalogue… (continued)
Scholarly commentaries on the artwork (its relation to other works, its importance in the artist's career, its formal structure, etc.)
The On-line Picasso Project
Visualizing and Exploring Picasso’s World
• The on-line repository allows users to browse and visualize the items and their metadata
• Some limitations due to the collection’s static HTML-based presentation
• The challenge is how to explore the collection to discover:
• facts
• patterns
• relationships
• membership and orderings
Overview +Detail
Overview
1st level of detail
2nd level of detail
3rd level of detail
Uncertain Data in Picasso’s Collection
Uncertainty when he started and/or ended an artworkUncertainty where he painted an artwork
Color fading scheme used to depict uncertain data for dates
Analyzing Picasso’s World
• Is there a pattern in what Picasso painted during specific seasons? • How did events in his personal life influence his paintings? • Which patterns can be identified between different decades?• What determines membership in a distinct series? • How do the various series correlate with each other?
Discovering Patterns
Picasso’s artistic production in 1927.
Filtering the dataset
Artworks created in Paris in 1927
Series in Picasso
Why series are important?
• Recognize and place particular works at the right
location and time
• Find a specific order
• Discover thematic and formal correlations
• Correlate Picasso’s artworks from distant periods
• Allow multiple orderings for works based on alternate
dates/places of execution
Some catalogs about Picasso
•Zervos (entire works)
•Palau i Fabre (early years and cubism)
•Daix and Rosselet (cubism)
•Daix and Boudaille (early years)
•Musée Picasso Paris (collection in the Museum)
•Bloch (etchings)
•Baer (etchings)
•Mourlot (lithographs)
•Spies (statues)
•Ramie (ceramics)
Creating Series
Animating Series
Comparing Series
Base series
Comparison series
Depicting Series in Context
Catalog of Series
Conclusions
Its flexibility and interaction features can help art scholars to analyze series of artworks
The visualization tool enables the viewer to relate works from distant periods
Depicting multiple series in parallel enables users to compare different art critics orders
Identify thematic and formal correlations in artworks
Future Work
After adding other media, we expect to answer questions
such as;
How do sculptures, ceramics, etchings, etc. relate to
drawings and oils?
By including texts written by Picasso we expect to address
the relationships between his writings and series of
artworks
Create XML catalogues
Usability tests to evaluate the users response to the tool
Acknowledgements
The Humanities Informatics Initiative funded by the Office of the Vice President for Research through a Telecommunications and Informatics Task Force grant
Additional support from the College of Engineering, the College of Liberal Arts, the Glasscock Center, and the Texas A&M University Libraries