Bauhaus · 1924
Komposition Z VIII
Komposition Z VIII (1924) by László Moholy-Nagy. Its palette is led by silver (#d9dbd5, 24%) and orange (#a07a51, 21%), with accents of dark rich sienna, ivory, pale golden yellow and scarlet red. Overall the canvas is light, vivid and warm.
Color reading
Brown, white and yellow cover nearly four-fifths of the canvas. Its most vivid color, scarlet red #C2301F, takes up just 4% of it.
Palette
- #d9dbd5 MG 206 silver 24.5% of canvas
- #a07a51 MG 030 orange 21.1% of canvas
- #b89568 MG 033 light amber 15.3% of canvas
- #5f1e0d MG 148 dark rich sienna 13.6% of canvas
- #060506 MG 224 black 8.7% of canvas
- #f6f3a7 MG 200 ivory 6.8% of canvas
- #f7ec50 MG 040 pale golden yellow 5.7% of canvas
- #c2301f MG 019 scarlet red 4.5% of canvas
Color families
Brown 31%, White 25%, Yellow 21%, Black 9%, Orange 5%
Measurements
Composition
60% of the visual weight is in the left half, 71% in the lower half. Symmetry 0.41 (how closely its shapes and edges mirror each other). 51% of the canvas is calm space. Half of the detail sits in 22% of the canvas. Measured from the image, not a rule the painter followed.
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