Cubism & Early Abstraction · 1934

Rhythms

Robert Delaunay 1885–1941

Rhythms (1934) by Robert Delaunay. Its palette is led by bone (#d4c5af, 33%) and putty (#a69884, 22%), with accents of dark red, soot, green and dark indigo blue. Overall the canvas is light, moderately saturated and warm.

Color reading

Brown and white cover about three-fifths of the canvas. Its most vivid color, dark red #8C0805, takes up 9% of it.

Palette

#d4c5af MG 171 bone 33.1% of canvas
#a69884 MG 173 putty 21.9% of canvas
#f2e4cf MG 201 parchment 10.4% of canvas
#8c0805 MG 020 dark red 9.2% of canvas
#11100d MG 223 soot 8.0% of canvas
#fffdf8 MG 205 white 7.5% of canvas
#1d6050 MG 067 green 5.1% of canvas
#1b3985 MG 113 dark indigo blue 4.9% of canvas

Color families

Brown 42%, White 20%, Green 8%, Blue 8%, Black 7%

Measurements

Lightness: 0.69
Contrast: 0.75
Vividness: 0.059
Warmth: +0.64
Complexity: 178 cells
Hue range: 0.71
Focus: 0.06

Composition

68% of the visual weight is in the left half, 51% in the upper half. Symmetry 0.23 (how closely its shapes and edges mirror each other). 53% of the canvas is calm space. Half of the detail sits in 17% of the canvas. Measured from the image, not a rule the painter followed.

Details

Date: 1934
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 145.0 × 113.0 cm
Genre: abstract art
Collection: Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris

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