Young Man with a Flower Behind his Ear
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.
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light dark
0
100
34.9
vivid muted
0
100
19.5
warm cool
-30
0
+50
10.6
Distribution
avg L 34.9
darklight
avg C 19.5
grayvivid
Brightness Heartbeat
Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.
avg L 34.9 L = 0 L = 100
Palette Analysis
"Young Man with a Flower Behind his Ear" (1891) reads as a shadowed, mid-saturation balanced palette built around Mauve and Amber. Color weight is distributed evenly across the top three swatches. A low-prevalence accent at #9D5928 pulls the eye.
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