Assignment II · Interactive Art Map
Deśa
An atlas of Indian art — where each tradition was born, and the roads it travelled.
Enter the atlasBoundaries of India as per the Survey of India (data: DataMeet, CC BY-SA). Map is illustrative, not to scale.
Click the map, then scroll to zoom · drag to pan
Spread & influence
Art travels. Follow it.
Styles moved with monks, merchants, pilgrims and painters looking for patrons. Each trail below plays as a guided journey on the map, showing how one idea reached new regions and changed on the way.
About this project
The geography of Indian art, made explorable.
- Assignment
- II · Interactive Art Map — CLA-I, 10 marks · Course outcome CO1
- Objective
- To explore the geographic spread and influence of different art styles across India, with images, descriptions and historical context about local art movements, artists and artworks at each location.
- What's inside
- 35 locations across 16 states and union territories · 5 art forms from rock painting to modern movements · filters by art form and age · 4 animated trails of influence · a full-resolution photograph for every location · links into the Kāla timeline.
- The map
- Drawn from official Survey of India boundaries (via DataMeet) and projected with a Lambert conformal conic projection, as used for maps of India. Built in HTML, SVG and JavaScript with D3.
- Sources
- Photographs from Wikimedia Commons under open licences, credited on each place and on the credits page.