Jules
Olitski
Jules Olitski: Pioneer of Color Field Painting Jevel Demikovsky (March 27, 1922 – February 4, 2007), known professionally as Jules Olitski, was an American painter, printmaker, and sculptor whose groundbreaking approach to abstraction profoundly impacted the art world. Born in Snizhne, Ukraine—a region scarred by …
A portrait built from Jules Olitski's own colours
Every 18 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.
