Impressionism · 1919
Water Lilies
Water Lilies (1919) by Claude Monet. Its palette is led by golden umber (#9a8a71, 31%) and rich olive (#6f6a2a, 30%), with accents of pale sand and pale gold. Overall the canvas is light, vivid and warm.
Color note
Monet painted outdoors with the new tube paints and synthetic pigments and all but banished black, building shadows from blues and violets. His series of haystacks and of Rouen Cathedral record how the color of one subject changes with the light.
Palette
- #9a8a71 MG 182 golden umber 31.4% of canvas
- #6f6a2a MG 197 rich olive 29.9% of canvas
- #59572c MG 046 olive 13.1% of canvas
- #ccb18f MG 180 pale sand 12.7% of canvas
- #39371a MG 195 dark olive 8.8% of canvas
- #e7ca71 MG 036 pale gold 4.0% of canvas
Color families
Brown 56%, Yellow 30%, Green 8%, Gray 2%, Red 1%
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Composition
54% of the visual weight is in the right half, 53% in the upper half. Symmetry 0.33 (how closely its shapes and edges mirror each other). 7% 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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More by Claude Monet
- Luncheon on the Grass, 1866
- Garden at Sainte-Adresse, 1867
- Regatta at Sainte-Adresse, 1867
- Woman in the Garden, 1867
- La Grenouillère, 1869
- Impression, Sunrise, 1872
- Woman with a Parasol – Madame Monet and Her Son, 1875
- Madame Monet wearing a kimono, 1876
- Rouen Cathedral, 1892
- Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies, 1899