Fauvism & Expressionism · 1906
Portrait of Rainer Maria Rilke
Portrait of Rainer Maria Rilke (1906) by Paula Modersohn-Becker. Its palette is led by umber (#78623d, 19%) and golden olive (#8f8a5b, 19%), with accents of pale muted golden cream, dark taupe and scarlet red. Overall the canvas is light, vivid and warm.
Color reading
Brown and orange cover more than two-thirds of the canvas. Its most vivid color, scarlet red #E05446, takes up just 2% of it.
Palette
- #78623d MG 184 umber 19.3% of canvas
- #8f8a5b MG 191 golden olive 18.6% of canvas
- #a7a271 MG 190 light golden sand 18.3% of canvas
- #f2d6b1 MG 202 pale muted golden cream 15.8% of canvas
- #e88962 MG 014 light scarlet red 14.3% of canvas
- #3d3228 MG 177 dark taupe 12.0% of canvas
- #e05446 MG 017 scarlet red 1.6% of canvas
Color families
Brown 50%, Orange 20%, Yellow 14%, White 6%, Red 4%
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Composition
51% of the visual weight is in the right half, 52% in the upper half. Symmetry 0.69 (how closely its shapes and edges mirror each other). 38% of the canvas is calm space. Half of the detail sits in 30% of the canvas. Measured from the image, not a rule the painter followed.
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