Realism · 1919
Gassed
Gassed (1919) by John Singer Sargent. Its palette is led by brown (#6e5639, 29%) and light tan (#b09c84, 28%), with accents of orange. Overall the canvas is light, moderately saturated and warm.
Color reading
Brown covers almost all of the canvas. Its most vivid color, orange #A2733D, takes up 11% of it.
Palette
- #6e5639 MG 167 brown 29.2% of canvas
- #b09c84 MG 164 light tan 27.9% of canvas
- #55432f MG 168 dark amber brown 18.2% of canvas
- #c2ae8f MG 172 oatmeal 13.6% of canvas
- #a2733d MG 030 orange 11.2% of canvas
Color families
Brown 98%, Orange 1%, Yellow 1%, Green 0%, Gray 0%
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Composition
51% of the visual weight is in the left half, 65% in the upper half. Symmetry 0.05 (how closely its shapes and edges mirror each other). 29% of the canvas is calm space. Half of the detail sits in 34% of the canvas. Measured from the image, not a rule the painter followed.
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