Male Model

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, NY, US · 99 x 73 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.
Male Model by Henri Matisse

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
42.0
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
18.3
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
-3.7
cool
Dominant Hue
#5A656F blue

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 268°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 42.0
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 18.3
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 42.0 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Male Model" (1900) reads as a shadowed, muted-saturation cool palette built around Slate and Blue. The body of the palette stays restrained while smaller hits of color do the work. A low-prevalence accent at #C39372 pulls the eye.

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