Fauvism & Expressionism · 1908
L'Apéritif
L'Apéritif (1908) by Raoul Dufy. Its palette is led by bone (#c9c3ab, 30%) and light tan (#c09d7b, 20%), with accents of lime green, dark muted green, dark red and blue. Overall the canvas is light, vivid and balanced between warm and cool.
Color note
Dufy let color float free of drawing, laying broad washes of color and then drawing over them in quick, separate lines.
Palette
- #c9c3ab MG 171 bone 30.4% of canvas
- #c09d7b MG 164 light tan 19.6% of canvas
- #6ea267 MG 064 light green 13.6% of canvas
- #9eb37a MG 043 light lime yellow 12.7% of canvas
- #217840 MG 066 lime green 10.4% of canvas
- #073d1c MG 060 dark muted green 6.5% of canvas
- #962d30 MG 020 dark red 4.0% of canvas
- #045c8e MG 106 blue 2.8% of canvas
Color families
Green 35%, Brown 30%, Blue 8%, Yellow 8%, Red 5%
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Composition
51% of the visual weight is in the right half, 52% in the lower half. Symmetry 0.67 (how closely its shapes and edges mirror each other). 6% 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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