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Gui
Changshi

1574 — 1645 · Early Modern

Early Life, Family and Training Born in Kunshan, Jiangsu, Gui Changshi was shaped by a lineage of profound literary talent. He was the grandson of the prose writer Gui Youguang, a connection that ensured his upbringing was steeped in the intellectual traditions of the Ming …

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Gui Changshi
The Palette Genome

A portrait built from Gui Changshi'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.

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Bands follow the hue wheel; visually identical tones are merged.

Four-Colour Decomposition
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The Chromatic Knot

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.

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Reading the Genome

The signature, in numbers