Kuo,
River
The Polymathic Visionary: The Life and Legacy of River Kuo To encounter the work of River Kuo is to step into a world where the boundaries between scientific precision and raw, emotive expression dissolve. While history often remembers the name Shen Kuo as the towering …
A portrait built from Kuo, River'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.