Romanticism · 1843
Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway
Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway (1843) by J. M. W. Turner. Its palette is led by light golden sand (#a59d86, 47%) and golden umber (#8f8466, 17%), with accents of bone. Overall the canvas is light, moderately saturated and warm.
Color note
Turner was an early, eager user of new pigments, especially chrome yellow, and his late work dissolves scenes into light and color. Some of his materials were unstable, so a number of his paintings have faded or changed.
Palette
- #a59d86 MG 190 light golden sand 46.7% of canvas
- #8f8466 MG 182 golden umber 17.2% of canvas
- #cdc7b0 MG 171 bone 12.9% of canvas
- #726243 MG 184 umber 12.8% of canvas
- #56422e MG 168 dark amber brown 10.3% of canvas
Color families
Brown 90%, Gray 7%, Yellow 2%, Black 1%, White 0%
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Composition
57% of the visual weight is in the right half, 72% in the lower half. Symmetry 0.21 (how closely its shapes and edges mirror each other). 77% 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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