Cubism & Early Abstraction · 1910
The City Rises
The City Rises (1910) by Umberto Boccioni. Its palette is led by light tan (#c4a58d, 27%) and parchment (#e4d6c2, 19%), with accents of warm grey, slate, charcoal and black. Overall the canvas is light, vivid and warm.
Color reading
Brown and red cover about two-thirds of the canvas. Its most vivid color, scarlet red #973223, takes up 15% of it.
Palette
- #c4a58d MG 164 light tan 27.5% of canvas
- #e4d6c2 MG 201 parchment 18.6% of canvas
- #bf875e MG 029 light orange 18.2% of canvas
- #973223 MG 019 scarlet red 15.3% of canvas
- #7b7469 MG 174 warm grey 11.4% of canvas
- #575357 MG 210 slate 4.8% of canvas
- #2f252c MG 222 charcoal 3.3% of canvas
- #08070b MG 224 black 0.9% of canvas
Color families
Brown 53%, Red 14%, Orange 11%, White 11%, Gray 6%
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Composition
53% of the visual weight is in the right half, 50% in the upper half. Symmetry 0.54 (how closely its shapes and edges mirror each other). 2% of the canvas is calm space. Half of the detail sits in 36% of the canvas. Measured from the image, not a rule the painter followed.
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