Fire

State Museum of Oriental Art, Moscow, Russia · 45.5 x 78.4 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.
Fire by Nicholas Roerich

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
38.9
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
31.0
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
-14.0
cool
Dominant Hue
#345D8B blue

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 271°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 38.9
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 31.0
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 38.9 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Fire" (1943) reads as a shadowed, rich-saturation cool palette built around Blue and Teal. The body of the palette stays restrained while smaller hits of color do the work. A low-prevalence accent at #58AEE8 pulls the eye.

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