Shoeing the Ox
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.
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light dark
0
100
26.1
vivid muted
0
100
17.7
warm cool
-30
0
+50
0.3
Distribution
avg L 26.1
darklight
avg C 17.7
grayvivid
Brightness Heartbeat
Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.
avg L 26.1 L = 0 L = 100
Palette Analysis
"Shoeing the Ox" (1910) reads as a shadowed, mid-saturation cool palette built around Blue and Slate. Color weight is spread without a single dominant note. A low-prevalence accent at #E5C9AD pulls the eye.
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