Cubism & Early Abstraction · c. 1911
Champs de Mars, the Red Tower
Champs de Mars, the Red Tower (c. 1911) by Robert Delaunay. Its palette is led by blue black (#1e131c, 22%) and bone (#d3cabd, 21%), with accents of grey, light amber, dark rich sienna and scarlet red. Overall the canvas is mid-toned, moderately saturated and warm.
Color reading
Brown, gray and black cover nearly three-quarters of the canvas. Its most vivid color, scarlet red #B9422D, takes up just 5% of it.
Palette
- #1e131c MG 221 blue black 21.6% of canvas
- #d3cabd MG 171 bone 21.2% of canvas
- #534b4c MG 217 iron 15.2% of canvas
- #857e7c MG 215 grey 12.3% of canvas
- #b1ada7 MG 213 light grey 10.4% of canvas
- #c3995c MG 033 light amber 7.3% of canvas
- #792229 MG 148 dark rich sienna 7.2% of canvas
- #b9422d MG 019 scarlet red 4.9% of canvas
Color families
Brown 36%, Gray 20%, Black 15%, Red 8%, White 7%
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Composition
53% of the visual weight is in the right half, 55% in the upper half. Symmetry 0.56 (how closely its shapes and edges mirror each other). 1% of the canvas is calm space. Half of the detail sits in 36% of the canvas. Measured from the image, not a rule the painter followed.
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