Monagrid

The colors of 509 paintings & prints, measured.

Every work is broken into a palette of its main colors, an adaptive grid showing where those colors sit, and a set of measurements. Colors snap to 224 Monagrid swatches, so a Vermeer and a Van Gogh can be compared directly, by artist, by movement, across 1297–1967. 78% of all the painted area here is shadow, earth, grey or white.

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129 artists · 23 movements · timeline · 224 swatches · about Monagrid

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Proto-Renaissance

Italian Renaissance

Northern Renaissance

Mannerism

Baroque

Dutch Golden Age

Rococo

Neoclassicism

Romanticism

Realism

Hudson River School

Rinpa

Ukiyo-e

Impressionism

Post-Impressionism

Symbolism & Aestheticism

Fauvism & Expressionism

Cubism & Early Abstraction

Bauhaus

Indian Modernism

Surrealism

American Modernism

Abstract Expressionism & Color Field