Cubism & Early Abstraction · 1907
Still Life with a Parrot
Still Life with a Parrot (1907) by Robert Delaunay. Its palette is led by bone (#d9c8a6, 20%) and pale reddish tan (#c5b1a4, 16%), with accents of scarlet, muted lime green, dark muted teal and azure. Overall the canvas is light, vivid and warm.
Color reading
Brown, yellow and green cover about three-fifths of the canvas. Its most vivid color, scarlet #AF6832, takes up 16% of it.
Palette
- #d9c8a6 MG 171 bone 19.6% of canvas
- #c5b1a4 MG 150 pale reddish tan 16.4% of canvas
- #af6832 MG 024 scarlet 16.3% of canvas
- #8baa6f MG 064 light green 13.5% of canvas
- #cfba7b MG 037 light amber gold 12.2% of canvas
- #567e51 MG 057 muted lime green 9.0% of canvas
- #204251 MG 085 dark muted teal 6.9% of canvas
- #337893 MG 090 azure 6.2% of canvas
Color families
Brown 28%, Yellow 16%, Green 15%, Blue 12%, Orange 9%
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Composition
60% of the visual weight is in the right half, 53% in the lower half. Symmetry 0.18 (how closely its shapes and edges mirror each other). 13% of the canvas is calm space. Half of the detail sits in 33% of the canvas. Measured from the image, not a rule the painter followed.
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