Bauhaus · 1922
E IV (Construction VII)
E IV (Construction VII) (1922) by László Moholy-Nagy. Its palette is led by charcoal (#232223, 80%) and light grey (#acabae, 13%), with accents of scarlet red, pale golden yellow and pale golden sand. Overall the canvas is dark, muted and warm.
Color reading
Black covers about four-fifths of the canvas. Its most vivid color, scarlet red #D65F46, takes up just 3% of it.
Palette
- #232223 MG 222 charcoal 79.9% of canvas
- #acabae MG 213 light grey 12.6% of canvas
- #06070d MG 224 black 2.9% of canvas
- #d65f46 MG 017 scarlet red 2.7% of canvas
- #f5df60 MG 040 pale golden yellow 1.1% of canvas
- #c6bf8f MG 189 pale golden sand 0.9% of canvas
Color families
Black 80%, Gray 14%, Red 2%, Brown 2%, Yellow 1%
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Composition
73% of the visual weight is in the right half, 52% in the upper half. Symmetry 0.24 (how closely its shapes and edges mirror each other). 56% of the canvas is calm space. Half of the detail sits in 15% of the canvas. Measured from the image, not a rule the painter followed.
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