nobuyoshi
araki
Early Life and the Seeds of a Singular Vision Nobuyoshi Araki, born in Tokyo in 1940 as Arākii, emerged from a postwar Japan grappling with societal shifts and a burgeoning sense of individual expression. His formative years were steeped in the visual language of film …
A portrait built from nobuyoshi araki's own colours
Every 5 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.
