Boris Kustodiev Palette 2

Palette Analysis

Boris Kustodiev is high-key - luminous, open, and weighted toward light. Cool tones set the register here - the blues and greens easily outweigh any warm accents. Every colour is desaturated; the palette proceeds through near-neutrals and gently-coloured greys. 38.6% of the palette belongs to #E4E6D8, a concentration that makes it the unmistakable visual centre. #D1B889 functions as the palette's exclamation mark: highest chroma, lowest percentage (7.0%). The full value range is 55 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. In the context of Boris Kustodiev's full range of palettes, group 2 represents one movement in an ongoing chromatic dialogue.