Post-Impressionism · 1907
Port de Marseilles
Port de Marseilles (1907) by Paul Signac. Its palette is led by bone (#dec8ba, 66%) and pale reddish tan (#d8b1a8, 18%). Overall the canvas is light, moderately saturated and warm.
Color reading
Brown and white cover nearly three-quarters of the canvas. Its most vivid color, light orange amber #E2B26E, takes up just 2% of it.
Palette
- #dec8ba MG 171 bone 66.2% of canvas
- #d8b1a8 MG 150 pale reddish tan 18.2% of canvas
- #aeaea8 MG 213 light grey 10.0% of canvas
- #d99a75 MG 022 light orange scarlet 3.3% of canvas
- #e2b26e MG 032 light orange amber 2.3% of canvas
Color families
Brown 37%, White 36%, Pink 11%, Gray 8%, Orange 3%
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Composition
52% of the visual weight is in the left half, 54% in the lower half. Symmetry 0.75 (how closely its shapes and edges mirror each other). 64% of the canvas is calm space. Half of the detail sits in 32% of the canvas. Measured from the image, not a rule the painter followed.
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