The Masters · Chromatic Profile

Kees
Smits

1945 · Modern

The Geometry of the Flat Landscape Amsterdam serves as the current base for Kees Smits, an artist whose practice is rooted in the tension between the horizontal expanse of the Dutch landscape and the rigid constraints of geometric abstraction. Born in 1945 in Kortgene, NL, …

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Kees Smits
The Palette Genome

A portrait built from Kees Smits'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.

← Cool · Shadow Warm · Earth Gold · Light →

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.

0° Red 90° Yellow 180° Cyan 270° Blue saturation →
Reading the Genome

The signature, in numbers