Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso Palette 9

Palette Analysis

Mid-key values give Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso its characteristic quietness - nothing blazes, nothing disappears. Cool tones set the register here - the blues and greens easily outweigh any warm accents. Chroma is kept low across all colours, producing the soft, enveloping quality that characterises tonal painting. The highest-chroma note - #8D703F - appears at just 10.8%, deployed as a precision accent against the quieter ground. Value range is moderate at 54 units - enough contrast for legibility, not so much as to fragment the tonal unity. High luminosity and cool temperature suggest the plein-air condition: unfiltered daylight and open sky. This is palette 9 of Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.