Wheat and Wormwood

Gilded Apricot
Gilded Warm gold-light quality - high-key warm tones, like late afternoon sunlight on metal.
Apricot Soft warm orange - peach-adjacent, the color of ripe stone fruit.
Wheat and Wormwood by Hilma af Klint

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
83.0
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
21.5
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
18.3
cool
Dominant Hue
#EDC6BA red

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 43°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 83.0
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 21.5
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 83.0 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Wheat and Wormwood" (1922) reads as a high-key, vivid-saturation warm palette built around Amber and Red. One color carries 56% of the picture plane, anchoring the composition. A low-prevalence accent at #BECEDE pulls the eye.

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