Night

National Gallery, Oslo, Norway · 64.5 x 54 cm

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.
Night by Edvard Munch

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
39.4
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
7.9
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
-3.9
cool
Dominant Hue
#555D65 gray

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 254°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 39.4
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 7.9
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 39.4 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Night" (1890) reads as a shadowed, muted-saturation cool palette built around Slate and Beige. The body of the palette stays restrained while smaller hits of color do the work. A low-prevalence accent at #968D7A pulls the eye.

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