Benedito Calixto Palette 2

Palette Analysis

Benedito Calixto distributes its values across the middle register, creating harmony without high contrast. Blues and teal-greys govern the palette, lending it an aquatic or atmospheric quality. Chroma is kept low across all colours, producing the soft, enveloping quality that characterises tonal painting. 30.3% of the palette belongs to #CFDDE2, a concentration that makes it the unmistakable visual centre. #628F96 functions as the palette's exclamation mark: highest chroma, lowest percentage (7.8%). The full value range is 70 units: broad enough to build convincing three-dimensional form. The palette has the character of outdoor light: cool, mid-bright, with colour rendered faithfully rather than expressively. This is palette 2 of Benedito Calixto's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.