Post-Impressionism · 1903
Mont Sainte-Victoire
Mont Sainte-Victoire (1903) by Paul Cézanne. Its palette is led by muted azure blue (#7091b4, 15%) and light indigo blue (#90b1e3, 10%), with accents of lime green, dark grey, light orange amber and graphite. Overall the canvas is light, vivid and cool.
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
- #5e7542 MG 066 lime green 17.7% of canvas
- #5b6159 MG 216 dark grey 16.9% of canvas
- #7091b4 MG 095 muted azure blue 15.4% of canvas
- #c6a05e MG 032 light orange amber 14.6% of canvas
- #303d34 MG 218 graphite 11.6% of canvas
- #90b1e3 MG 101 light indigo blue 9.8% of canvas
- #8aa6b7 MG 094 light muted blue 8.0% of canvas
- #769cdf MG 102 light blue 5.9% of canvas
Color families
Blue 36%, Green 20%, Gray 15%, Brown 14%, Yellow 11%
Measurements
Composition
52% of the visual weight is in the right half, 56% in the upper half. Symmetry 0.73 (how closely its shapes and edges mirror each other). 6% of the canvas is calm space. Half of the detail sits in 37% of the canvas. Measured from the image, not a rule the painter followed.
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