Fauvism & Expressionism · 1876–1907 · German
Paula Modersohn-Becker
Across 3 works, the colors are mostly brown (48%), red (16%) and orange (9%). On average the canvases are light, vivid and warm. Signature colors, used far more here than across the collection: reddish crimson, pale golden sand, reddish crimson, pale orange and light crimson.
Color print
The swatches covering most of these canvases, averaged over every work, dark to light.
- MG 189 pale golden sand 17.4% of canvas
- MG 190 light golden sand 6.9% of canvas
- MG 005 reddish crimson 5.3% of canvas
- MG 057 muted lime green 4.1% of canvas
- MG 191 golden olive 3.6% of canvas
- MG 006 reddish crimson 3.3% of canvas
- MG 163 pale tan 3.3% of canvas
- MG 022 light orange scarlet 3.0% of canvas
- MG 027 pale orange 2.9% of canvas
- MG 011 muted crimson red 2.5% of canvas
- MG 176 taupe 2.4% of canvas
- MG 044 light yellow 2.2% of canvas
- MG 177 dark taupe 2.1% of canvas
- MG 213 light grey 2.1% of canvas
- MG 171 bone 2.1% of canvas
- MG 004 light crimson 2.1% of canvas
Measurements
Composition
Averaged over 3 works: 52% of the visual weight in the left half, 52% in the upper half; symmetry 0.69; 51% calm space; half of the detail in 32% of the canvas. Measured from each image, not a rule the painters followed.