Xu
Lei
The Weaver of Dreams and Ink In the vast landscape of contemporary Chinese art, few figures command as much multidisciplinary reverence as Xu Lei. Born in 1963 in Nantong, within the Jiangsu province, Xu Lei has cultivated a creative identity that exists at the intersection …
A portrait built from Xu Lei's own colours
Every 10 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.
