chen
danqing
early life and education chen danqing, a chinese-american artist, writer, and art critic, was born on august 11, 1953, in shanghai, china. his family home is in taishan, guangdong province. chen started learning oil painting in secondary school, where he acquainted himself with young artists …
A portrait built from chen danqing's own colours
Every 1 approved work contributes its dominant tone to a single flowing field. Sorted along the hue wheel, the strip reads as a smooth spectrum. Click any band to reveal its full four-colour palette.
Bands follow the hue wheel; visually identical tones are merged.
Every painting, placed on the hue wheel
Each dot is a work — its angle set by hue, its distance from the centre by saturation. Hover a dot to see the painting.
The signature, in numbers
Where the colour came from
Up to 24 paintings representing the most frequent palette tones — each shown with its dominant colours.
