Arman
Manookian
Arman Manookian: Hawaii’s Van Gogh – A Lost Voice of the Pacific The art world often seeks out the dramatic, the scandalous, the utterly unique. Arman Tateos Manookian (1904-1931), an Armenian-American painter who briefly captivated Honolulu in the 1920s and 30s, embodies all of these …
A portrait built from Arman Manookian's own colours
Every 28 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.
