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A Bridge Between Worlds: The Life and Art of Ding Yanyong Ding Yanyong (1902-1978) occupies a unique position in 20th-century Chinese art history, a figure celebrated as the “Matisse of the East” and hailed for his ability to synthesize Western modernism with deeply rooted Chinese …
A portrait built from ding yanyong's own colours
Every 3 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.
