The Masters · Chromatic Profile

Jan
Philip Koelman

1818 — 1893 · 19th Century

The Revolutionary Eye To understand Jan Philip Koelman, one must look past the quietude of his watercolours and see the man who stood in the trenches of the Roman Republic. He was not merely a painter or a sculptor; he was an active participant in …

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Jan Philip Koelman
The Palette Genome

A portrait built from Jan Philip Koelman's own colours

Every 6 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