Blue Dancers

Pushkin Museum, Moscow, Russia

Brooding Schist
Brooding Low-key and emotionally weighted - dark values with a sense of psychological depth.
Schist Layered dark gray - the color of metamorphic schist rock, cool and mineral.
Blue Dancers by Edgar Degas

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
41.6
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
21.2
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
-10.5
cool
Dominant Hue
#496761 teal

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 175°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 41.6
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 21.2
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 41.6 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Blue Dancers" (1899) reads as a shadowed, mid-saturation cool palette built around Cool Grey and Sage. Color weight is spread without a single dominant note. A low-prevalence accent at #29549C pulls the eye.

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