gustavo
adolfo pérez
gustavo pérez is a mexican artist born in mexico city in 1950. he studied engineering, mathematics and philosophy at the university of mexico and then enrolled at the design and crafts school in mexico city to study ceramics. pérez's ceramics have achieved worldwide recognition despite …
A portrait built from gustavo adolfo pérez'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.
