Water Lilies
Soft Mellow
Soft Low-contrast, gentle chroma - mid-key values and low saturation, approachable and calm.
Mellow Soft warm yellow - gentle, low-chroma, the color of aged paper or afternoon light.
Color Palette
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light dark
0
100
45.8
vivid muted
0
100
19.0
warm cool
-30
0
+50
-5.4
Distribution
avg L 45.8
darklight
avg C 19.0
grayvivid
Brightness Heartbeat
Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.
avg L 45.8 L = 0 L = 100
Palette Analysis
"Water Lilies" (1914) reads as a shadowed, muted-saturation cool palette built around Slate and Blue. Color weight is distributed evenly across the top three swatches. A low-prevalence accent at #2E3160 pulls the eye.
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