The chart is an interactive lineage map. Shock art sits at the center, on a timeline that runs from older movements at the top to newer ones at the bottom. The movements that influenced it appear above it, any parallel movements it developed alongside sit on its own row, and the movements it later influenced appear below. Every line is a real, cited connection between two movements: a solid line is an influence historians broadly agree on, and a dashed line is an indirect, parallel, or contested link.

For Shock art (late 20th Century – Present), it traces one movement that shaped it, an indirect or contested link: Dada; it runs alongside one parallel movement, a well-established link: Transgressive art.