Impressionist Artworks at The Art Institute of Chicago

Overview

Impressionist Artworks at The Art Institute of Chicago is a coding challenge for MIT xPRO Front-End Development with React program.

This exercise has the following goals:

• Fetch, and render data from external source with React
• Have practice with Axios library
• Have practice with useEffect and useReducer React hooks
• Create client-side pagination

The data for this project is retrieved from Art Institute of Chicago API.

Features

Impressionist Artworks at The Art Institute of Chicago project has the following features:

• Users are able to select impressionist artists from dropdown list
• List of artworks for selected artist is downloaded using Art Institute of Chicago API
• Images are downloaded using
• Data is paginated with one artwork per page
• For each artwork, title and image are displayed
• Each artwork's title is a link to the page with more detailed information about the artwork

API Calls

To get the list of artworks for an artist, the following API query is used:

https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/search?q={artist}&&fields=id,title,image_id

The response looks like this:

"data": [
  {
    "_score": 254.86807,
    "id": 16568,
    "image_id": "3c27b499-af56-f0d5-93b5-a7f2f1ad5813",
    "title": "Water Lilies"
  }
]

To get images, the following URL is used:

https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/{image_id}/full/843,/0/default.jpg

Getting Started

To run the project locally,

1. Clone this repo.
2. cd into current directory.
3. Run index.html on local server.