Bauhaus · 1932
Bauhaus Stairway
Bauhaus Stairway (1932) by Oskar Schlemmer. Its palette is led by pale muted cream (#e8c8a4, 23%) and light grey (#b1abb0, 20%), with accents of dark muted azure blue, muted red, vivid red and rich sienna. Overall the canvas is light, moderately saturated and warm.
Color reading
Brown, blue and gray cover about two-thirds of the canvas. Its most vivid color, vivid red #DE3321, takes up 6% of it.
Palette
- #e8c8a4 MG 199 pale muted cream 22.6% of canvas
- #b1abb0 MG 213 light grey 19.7% of canvas
- #221016 MG 223 soot 15.4% of canvas
- #7f84a1 MG 095 muted azure blue 13.1% of canvas
- #464460 MG 098 dark muted azure blue 11.6% of canvas
- #886a6a MG 012 muted red 7.7% of canvas
- #de3321 MG 013 vivid red 6.0% of canvas
- #82321e MG 147 rich sienna 3.8% of canvas
Color families
Brown 26%, Blue 22%, Gray 17%, White 11%, Red 10%
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Composition
55% of the visual weight is in the left half, 51% in the upper half. Symmetry 0.18 (how closely its shapes and edges mirror each other). 13% of the canvas is calm space. Half of the detail sits in 31% of the canvas. Measured from the image, not a rule the painter followed.
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