qian
songyan
A Life Rooted in Tradition: The Journey of Qian Songyan Qian Songyan, born in 1899 in the small farming village of Hushu near Yixing, Jiangsu Province, was an artist whose life became deeply interwoven with the evolving narrative of modern Chinese art. His lineage itself …
A portrait built from qian songyan'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.
