Jean
Carlu
The Architect of Visual Persuasion In the turbulent dawn of the twentieth century, a new language of communication was being forged, one that relied less on dense text and more on the visceral impact of shape, color, and symbol. At the forefront of this revolution …
A portrait built from Jean Carlu's own colours
Every 7 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.