Post-Impressionism · 1884
Bathers at Asnières
Bathers at Asnières (1884) by Georges Seurat. Its palette is led by light grey (#a6aaac, 31%) and pigeon grey (#8b94a0, 24%), with accents of muted red, muted blue, soot and graphite. Overall the canvas is light, muted and balanced between warm and cool.
Color note
Seurat set small dots of unmixed color side by side so they blend in the eye, a method drawn from the color science of Chevreul and Rood. Some of his yellows were zinc yellow, which has since darkened.
Palette
- #a6aaac MG 213 light grey 31.3% of canvas
- #8b94a0 MG 208 pigeon grey 24.1% of canvas
- #dad4cc MG 201 parchment 16.1% of canvas
- #848f73 MG 056 muted lime green 13.4% of canvas
- #8c6364 MG 012 muted red 5.6% of canvas
- #585d6e MG 097 muted blue 5.4% of canvas
- #140f15 MG 223 soot 2.4% of canvas
- #46373d MG 218 graphite 1.8% of canvas
Color families
Gray 46%, Brown 19%, Blue 12%, Green 10%, White 8%
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Composition
51% of the visual weight is in the left half, 64% in the lower half. Symmetry 0.51 (how closely its shapes and edges mirror each other). 35% of the canvas is calm space. Half of the detail sits in 26% of the canvas. Measured from the image, not a rule the painter followed.
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More by Georges Seurat
- A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, 1884
- The Models, 1886
- The Circus, 1891