Post-Impressionism · 1892
When Will You Marry?
When Will You Marry? (1892) by Paul Gauguin. Its palette is led by light orange amber (#d89f34, 22%) and brown (#6c4d33, 19%), with accents of muted azure blue, scarlet red, pale muted golden cream and very dark muted blue. Overall the canvas is light, vivid and warm.
Color note
Gauguin painted in flat areas of bold, unnatural color, often ringed with dark outlines, choosing color for feeling and symbol rather than description.
Palette
- #d89f34 MG 032 light orange amber 22.2% of canvas
- #6c4d33 MG 167 brown 18.9% of canvas
- #375428 MG 059 dark muted lime green 13.6% of canvas
- #617195 MG 096 muted azure blue 12.6% of canvas
- #e58248 MG 025 light scarlet orange 11.4% of canvas
- #be3f20 MG 019 scarlet red 9.3% of canvas
- #f3d698 MG 202 pale muted golden cream 8.6% of canvas
- #111f30 MG 100 very dark muted blue 3.5% of canvas
Color families
Brown 23%, Yellow 22%, Orange 14%, Green 14%, Blue 9%
Measurements
Composition
52% of the visual weight is in the right half, 50% in the lower half. Symmetry 0.56 (how closely its shapes and edges mirror each other). 14% 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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