Surrealism · 1944
The Broken Column
Still in copyright: the image isn't shown, only the colors measured from it.
The Broken Column (1944) by Frida Kahlo. Its palette is led by light orange (#c18758, 19%) and indigo blue (#6f77a6, 14%), with accents of golden olive, bone, soot and blue. Overall the canvas is light, moderately saturated and warm.
Color reading
Brown, blue and white cover about two-thirds of the canvas. Its most vivid color, blue #485391, takes up 6% of it.
Palette
- #7d724a MG 192 golden olive 19.9% of canvas
- #c18758 MG 029 light orange 18.7% of canvas
- #6f77a6 MG 103 indigo blue 14.4% of canvas
- #4f4b32 MG 194 dark golden olive 14.0% of canvas
- #f4f1ed MG 205 white 10.5% of canvas
- #cec1b9 MG 171 bone 9.2% of canvas
- #171411 MG 223 soot 6.8% of canvas
- #485391 MG 106 blue 6.4% of canvas
Color families
Brown 36%, Blue 19%, White 13%, Orange 11%, Yellow 7%
Measurements
Composition
51% of the visual weight is in the left half, 55% in the lower half. Symmetry 0.59 (how closely its shapes and edges mirror each other). 17% 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.