Clovis Gauguin asleep

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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.
Clovis Gauguin asleep by Paul Gauguin

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
32.9
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
31.7
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
9.6
cool
Dominant Hue
#534962 purple

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 324°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 32.9
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 31.7
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 32.9 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Clovis Gauguin asleep" (1884) reads as a shadowed, rich-saturation balanced palette built around Blue and Red. The body of the palette stays restrained while smaller hits of color do the work. A low-prevalence accent at #90381C pulls the eye.

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