tseng
kwong chi
A Bridge Between Worlds In the vibrant, chaotic pulse of New York’s East Village during the 1980s, few figures captured the friction of cultural identity as poignantly as Tseng Kwong Chi. Known also as Joseph Tseng, this Hong Kong-born visionary arrived in the West not …
A portrait built from tseng kwong chi'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.