Zheng
Wuchang
The Scholar of the Shanghai School To understand the weight of modern Chinese painting, one must look at the structural foundations laid by Zheng Wuchang. He was not merely a practitioner of ink and color; he was an architect of art history. While many of …
A portrait built from Zheng Wuchang'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.