The Periodic Table of Art Elements

The Periodic Table of Art Elements is a visual and conceptual mapping of art history — a system that translates centuries of artistic expression into a unified visual language. Drawing inspiration from Mendeleev’s scientific model, the project reimagines art history as an interdependent structure where every artwork, movement, and idea functions as an “element” within a larger creative organism.

Comprising 276 individual visual “cells,” the work treats each artist or artifact as a molecule of meaning — unique yet inseparable from its neighbors. Through clusters and cross-connections, the table exposes how influence circulates through time: between ancient myths and contemporary pixels, sacred symbols and industrial materials, gesture and algorithm.

The project merges text and image, theory and materiality. Each element is accompanied by a concise textual reflection, while the composite grid — rendered in a pixelated visual vocabulary — becomes both archive and abstraction. The act of pixelation operates as a metaphor for compression, translation, and the search for universal structure within the chaos of art history.

In this sense, The Periodic Table of Art Elements is not only a taxonomy, but also a living network — a visual “neural map” of culture. It aims to transform the vast, uneven landscape of art into a single field of interconnected energy, where the Renaissance converses with Minimalism, the sacred with the conceptual, and the painterly with the digital.