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Ni Tian: Bridging Scholar and Landscape in Late Qing China Ni Tian (倪田, 1855-1919) stands as a pivotal figure in the transition of Chinese painting from traditional literati styles to the burgeoning modern landscape movement of the late Qing Dynasty. Born Baotian in Jiangsu province, …
A portrait built from ni tian's own colours
Every 8 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.
