Sun
Kehong
A Life in Ink and Verse Born in Huating in the Shanghai province, Sun Kehong lived through the shifting landscapes of the Ming dynasty. He was a man of many disciplines, finding expression not only through the brush of a painter but also through the …
A portrait built from Sun Kehong's own colours
Every 14 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.