Towers

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK · 60 x 43 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.
Towers by Max Ernst

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
37.3
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
28.8
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
11.1
cool
Dominant Hue
#655169 pink

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 329°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 37.3
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 28.8
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 37.3 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Towers" (1916) reads as a shadowed, mid-saturation cool palette built around Slate and Blue. Color weight is distributed evenly across the top three swatches. A low-prevalence accent at #D88C60 pulls the eye.

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