Wang
Chengpei
A Life of Ink and Office Wang Chengpei lived during the Qing dynasty, a period when the boundaries between scholarly administration and artistic expression were often blurred. Born to Wang Youdun, a poet-official of note, he was raised in an environment where literature and governance …
A portrait built from Wang Chengpei's own colours
Every 5 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.