Artists

Almost all objects you interact with on a Matplotlib plot are called "Artist" (and are subclasses of the Artist class). Figure and Axes are Artists, and generally contain Axis Artists and Artists that contain data or annotation information.

• Introduction to Artists
  • Creating Artists
  • Changing Artist properties
  • Changing Artist data
  • Manually adding Artists
  • Removing Artists

• Automated color cycle
• Optimizing Artists for performance
• Paths
• Path effects guide
• Understanding the extent keyword argument of imshow
• Transformations Tutorial