Water Lilies

Brooding Crepuscule
Brooding Low-key and emotionally weighted - dark values with a sense of psychological depth.
Crepuscule Twilight purple-gray - the color of the sky in the minutes after sunset.
Water Lilies by Claude Monet

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
27.4
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
14.3
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
-2.0
cool
Dominant Hue
#3B4145 gray

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 253°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 27.4
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 14.3
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 27.4 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Water Lilies" (1914) reads as a deep, muted-saturation cool palette built around Cool Grey and Mauve. Color weight is distributed evenly across the top three swatches. A low-prevalence accent at #6A683E pulls the eye.

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