tan
song
A Brush with Tradition: The Life and Art of Tan Song Tan Song, a name resonating softly within the annals of 18th-century Chinese landscape painting, emerged from the Fujian province in 1748—a period steeped in artistic reverence for both innovation and the enduring legacy of …
A portrait built from tan song'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.
