Pascal
Marthine Tayou
A Cosmopolitan Vision: The Life and Art of Pascal Marthine Tayou Pascal Marthine Tayou is a contemporary artist whose work defies easy categorization, existing at the intersection of sculpture, installation, painting, and performance. Born in Douala, Cameroon, in 1967, Tayou’s artistic journey has been profoundly …
A portrait built from Pascal Marthine Tayou's own colours
Every 2 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.
