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early life and artistic beginnings chen hengke, a prominent figure in early 20th-century chinese art, was born in 1876. despite the scarcity of documents on his life, it is known that chen's artistic journey began with traditional chinese painting techniques, which he later blended with …
A portrait built from chen hengke's own colours
Every 2 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.
