This interactive colour experience was created for a class. The brief was to create an interactive visualization that presents insights from a dataset to help answer a question about a chosen subject/theme.
I've always had an interest in art history and the Impressionist movement, so I chose to use the MET museum’s public API to gather images of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings and turned them into an interactive comparative colour analysis website.
The goal of the website was to learn more about the similarities and differences of the two art movements with a focus on colour, as colour is significant in both. By offering a variety of relevant filters and scroll effects, I wanted viewers to be able to explore the website and its interactions to be able to compare the data and learn more about Impressionism and Post-Impressionism.
This was my first time learning how to use an API and working with the isotope.js library to be able to filter through the paintings. I had a lot of help from my professor, but I learned a lot in this project about implementing tools outside of the basics.
I think I created a functional, responsive design to meet my goals and the goals of the assignment, and created an educational tool about art history.
