Water Lilies

Brooding Basalt
Brooding Low-key and emotionally weighted - dark values with a sense of psychological depth.
Basalt Dark blue-gray - the color of volcanic rock, cool and dense.
Water Lilies by Claude Monet

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
31.9
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
11.0
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
-1.3
cool
Dominant Hue
#484C48 gray

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 139°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 31.9
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 11.0
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 31.9 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Water Lilies" (1914) reads as a shadowed, muted-saturation cool palette built around Slate and Sage. Color weight is distributed evenly across the top three swatches. A low-prevalence accent at #5A5579 pulls the eye.

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