Romanticism · 1840
The Slave Ship
The Slave Ship (1840) by J. M. W. Turner. Its palette is led by pale sand (#d3c09b, 31%) and amber brown (#8e6f4c, 23%), with accents of dark taupe. 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
- #d3c09b MG 180 pale sand 31.4% of canvas
- #8e6f4c MG 166 amber brown 22.7% of canvas
- #6f4a31 MG 159 rich brown 20.5% of canvas
- #ab9063 MG 033 light amber 17.8% of canvas
- #433423 MG 177 dark taupe 7.7% of canvas
Color families
Brown 79%, Yellow 13%, Orange 4%, Gray 2%, White 1%
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Composition
61% of the visual weight is in the left half, 66% in the lower half. Symmetry 0.64 (how closely its shapes and edges mirror each other). 45% of the canvas is calm space. Half of the detail sits in 31% of the canvas. Measured from the image, not a rule the painter followed.
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