Wassily Kandinsky, Improvisation No. 30 (Cannons), 1913: color palette
Wassily Kandinsky, Improvisation No. 30 (Cannons), 1913. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain.
A mid-toned image anchored by tobacco brown (17%), with warm stone as the light (57%) and terracotta red as the charge (16%). The clearest relationship is hue: a small amount of rail blue, about 10%, set against terracotta red from a distant hue family.
Warm stone, tobacco brown and terracotta red
- Anchor: Tobacco brown #5F4B41, 17%. Tobacco brown is the dark ground of the image, about 17% of it, scattered through the image. Only rail blue sits darker. It carries a warm hue, so the shadows read as color. It sits a few steps darker than warm stone, a moderate range that keeps the image soft.
- Energy: Terracotta red #A94E43, 16%. Terracotta red has the highest chroma in this palette, about 16% of the image, scattered through the image. Its force comes from chroma. At about 16% it holds a measured share of the image, smaller than the Anchor.
- Atmosphere: Warm stone #B09D89, 57%. Warm stone is the lightest quiet group, about 57% of the image, across most of the image. Its chroma is muted, so it reads as light and air. As the largest group, it sets the mood of the image.
- Anomaly: Rail blue #374987, 10%. Rail blue sits 123° of hue from the nearest other role, about 10% of the image, near the center. It meets Iris's Anomaly rule: at least 40° of hue from the other roles, between 2% and 15% of the image. Small and separate in hue, it reads as an accent.
Warm stone, the Atmosphere, is the largest group at about 57% of the image.
Against the framework starting point of 55, 20, 20 and 5, this image gives the Anchor 38 points less.
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