Mother of the World

Roerich Museum, Moscow, Russia · 117 x 89 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.
Mother of the World by Nicholas Roerich

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
35.5
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
16.6
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
-8.5
cool
Dominant Hue
#41556A blue

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 265°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 35.5
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 16.6
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 35.5 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Mother of the World" (1924) reads as a shadowed, mid-saturation cool palette built around Blue and Slate. The body of the palette stays restrained while smaller hits of color do the work. A low-prevalence accent at #B5A8A2 pulls the eye.

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