Cubism & Early Abstraction · 1907
The Ten Largest, No. 3, Youth
The Ten Largest, No. 3, Youth (1907) by Hilma af Klint. Its palette is led by scarlet orange (#ca6f3b, 33%) and parchment (#efe1d3, 16%), with accents of pale slate, light salmon, dark slate and dark grey. Overall the canvas is light, vivid and warm.
Color note
Hilma af Klint's The Ten Largest (1907), each around three metres tall, are painted in pastel pinks, oranges, blues and lilacs. She kept her abstract work largely private; it became widely known only decades after her death.
Palette
- #ca6f3b MG 026 scarlet orange 32.9% of canvas
- #efe1d3 MG 201 parchment 16.4% of canvas
- #b4bece MG 207 pale slate 11.1% of canvas
- #e9ba40 MG 035 pale amber 10.5% of canvas
- #f2df9c MG 203 pale muted golden cream 9.8% of canvas
- #dc9d8b MG 142 light salmon 7.9% of canvas
- #2f343d MG 211 dark slate 6.2% of canvas
- #606475 MG 216 dark grey 5.1% of canvas
Color families
Orange 34%, White 23%, Yellow 15%, Gray 11%, Blue 6%
Measurements
Composition
52% of the visual weight is in the right half, 63% in the lower half. Symmetry 0.52 (how closely its shapes and edges mirror each other). 10% of the canvas is calm space. Half of the detail sits in 34% of the canvas. Measured from the image, not a rule the painter followed.
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