Mother of Turfan

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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 Turfan by Nicholas Roerich

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
26.5
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
56.3
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
-2.6
cool
Dominant Hue
#0E398D blue

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 295°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 26.5
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 56.3
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 26.5 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Mother of Turfan" (1924) reads as a shadowed, vivid-saturation cool palette built around Blue. The body of the palette stays restrained while smaller hits of color do the work. A low-prevalence accent at #0453B6 pulls the eye.

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