Post-Impressionism · 1888
Mardi Gras
Mardi Gras (1888) by Paul Cézanne. Its palette is led by stone (#6b644d, 18%) and graphite (#35393b, 17%), with accents of pale muted lime green, golden olive, light muted aqua and scarlet red. Overall the canvas is mid-toned, moderately saturated and warm.
Color note
Cézanne modelled form by shifting from warm to cool color rather than from light to dark, laying small, deliberate patches of color side by side.
Palette
- #6b644d MG 175 stone 18.2% of canvas
- #35393b MG 218 graphite 16.7% of canvas
- #53696f MG 216 dark grey 16.0% of canvas
- #435153 MG 217 iron 15.1% of canvas
- #cfd8be MG 051 pale muted lime green 10.5% of canvas
- #998d5a MG 191 golden olive 10.2% of canvas
- #8ca8a1 MG 080 light muted aqua 9.6% of canvas
- #b94e23 MG 017 scarlet red 3.8% of canvas
Color families
Brown 30%, Gray 29%, Blue 15%, Green 11%, Yellow 4%
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Composition
60% of the visual weight is in the left half, 53% in the upper half. Symmetry 0.34 (how closely its shapes and edges mirror each other). 10% 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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