Surrealism · 1927

Painting (The Circus Horse)

Joan Miró 1893–1983

Still in copyright: the image isn't shown, only the colors measured from it.

Painting (The Circus Horse) (1927) by Joan Miró. Its palette is led by light muted blue (#78aac7, 58%) and light teal azure (#8dbbd3, 30%), with accents of dark slate. Overall the canvas is light, vivid and cool.

Color reading

Blue covers almost all of the canvas. Its most vivid color, teal azure #227DB3, takes up 6% of it.

Palette

#78aac7 MG 094 light muted blue 58.1% of canvas
#8dbbd3 MG 087 light teal azure 30.4% of canvas
#227db3 MG 089 teal azure 6.0% of canvas
#bce0eb MG 077 pale muted azure aqua 4.6% of canvas
#203033 MG 211 dark slate 0.9% of canvas

Color families

Blue 97%, Gray 2%, White 1%, Black 0%, Yellow 0%

Measurements

Lightness: 0.72
Contrast: 0.25
Vividness: 0.067
Warmth: -0.99
Complexity: 70 cells
Hue range: 0.14
Focus: 0.02

Composition

53% of the visual weight is in the left half, 53% in the lower half. Symmetry 0.43 (how closely its shapes and edges mirror each other). 68% of the canvas is calm space. Half of the detail sits in 26% of the canvas. Measured from the image, not a rule the painter followed.

Details

Date: 1927
Medium: Oil and tempera on canvas
Size: 24 × 33 cm
Made in: Spain
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago