Movement · 1860–1915

Symbolism & Aestheticism

Moody harmonies and jewelled surfaces. Whistler titles paintings as 'arrangements' and 'nocturnes'; Klimt adds gold leaf.

Across 33 works, the colors are mostly brown (49%), black (17%) and gray (16%). On average the canvases are mid-toned, moderately saturated and warm. Signature colors, used far more here than across the collection: reddish brown, charcoal, very dark sienna, dark grey and reddish brown.

Color print

The swatches covering most of these canvases, averaged over every work, dark to light.

• MG 222 charcoal 9.6% of canvas
• MG 219 bistre 5.7% of canvas
• MG 218 graphite 5.1% of canvas
• MG 176 taupe 4.4% of canvas
• MG 177 dark taupe 4.4% of canvas
• MG 175 stone 4.2% of canvas
• MG 223 soot 4.1% of canvas
• MG 174 warm grey 4.0% of canvas
• MG 216 dark grey 3.9% of canvas
• MG 172 oatmeal 2.9% of canvas
• MG 217 iron 2.9% of canvas
• MG 211 dark slate 2.8% of canvas
• MG 183 golden umber 2.5% of canvas
• MG 173 putty 2.3% of canvas
• MG 165 amber brown 2.2% of canvas
• MG 221 blue black 2.1% of canvas

Measurements

Lightness

0.48

Contrast

0.44

Vividness

0.037

Warmth

+0.79

Complexity

133 cells

Hue range

0.38

Focus

0.08

Composition

Averaged over 33 works: 53% of the visual weight in the left half, 50% in the upper half; symmetry 0.42; 39% calm space; half of the detail in 30% of the canvas. Measured from each image, not a rule the painters followed.

Artists

• Gustave Moreau 1826–1898
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828–1882
• James McNeill Whistler 1834–1903
• Odilon Redon 1840–1916
• John William Waterhouse 1849–1917
• Gustav Klimt 1862–1918
• Edvard Munch 1863–1944
• Vilhelm Hammershøi 1864–1916
• Pablo Picasso 1881–1973

Works

• Bocca Baciata, 1859
• Oedipus and the Sphinx, 1864
• Jason, 1865
• Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl, 1860s
• Nocturne: Blue and Silver – Chelsea, 1871
• Whistler's Mother, 1871
• Beata Beatrix, 1872
• Proserpine, 1874
• Nocturne in Black and Gold – The Falling Rocket, 1875
• Salomé Dancing before Herod, 1876
• The Lady of Shalott, 1888
• The Scream, 1893
• Vampire, 1893
• Jealousy, 1895
• Puberty, 1895
• Amalienborg Square, Copenhagen, 1896
• Hylas and the Nymphs, 1896
• The Kiss, 1897
• Ida Reading a Letter, 1899
• Dust Motes Dancing in Sunbeams, 1900
• Judith I, 1901
• Echo and Narcissus, 1903
• The Old Guitarist, 1903–1904
• The Three Ages of Woman, 1905
• Nude with a Pitcher, 1906
• Danaë, 1907
• Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, 1907
• The Kiss, 1907
• Le Regard, 1910
• Interior with an Easel, Bredgade 25, 1912
• The Birth of Venus, 1912
• The Cyclops, 1914
• Woman With a Fan, 1917