The Masters · Chromatic Profile

cai
han

1647 — 1686 · Early Modern

The Silent Brush of the Mao Household In the delicate tapestry of seventeenth-century Chinese art, few figures possess the haunting allure of Cai Han (1647–1686). A woman whose life was lived within the gilded confines of a prominent estate, she emerged from the shadows of …

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cai han
The Palette Genome

A portrait built from cai han'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.

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

Four-Colour Decomposition
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