Cubism & Early Abstraction · 1916
Card Players
Card Players (1916) by Theo van Doesburg. Its palette is led by soot (#0e0918, 29%) and silver (#e1e6e1, 23%), with accents of dark muted azure teal, scarlet red, very dark violet and scarlet orange. Overall the canvas is mid-toned, moderately saturated and warm.
Color reading
Black, white and blue cover about two-thirds of the canvas. Its most vivid color, scarlet red #B93711, takes up 6% of it.
Palette
- #0e0918 MG 223 soot 29.0% of canvas
- #e1e6e1 MG 206 silver 23.2% of canvas
- #b29f70 MG 181 light sand 15.6% of canvas
- #0d2364 MG 108 very dark blue 9.2% of canvas
- #0c4e46 MG 084 dark muted azure teal 8.6% of canvas
- #b93711 MG 019 scarlet red 5.8% of canvas
- #461e4b MG 137 very dark violet 5.8% of canvas
- #b66720 MG 026 scarlet orange 2.7% of canvas
Color families
Black 29%, White 23%, Blue 17%, Brown 12%, Red 6%
Measurements
Composition
54% of the visual weight is in the right half, 52% in the upper half. Symmetry 0.57 (how closely its shapes and edges mirror each other). 17% of the canvas is calm space. Half of the detail sits in 30% of the canvas. Measured from the image, not a rule the painter followed.
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