Emil Filla Palette 4

Palette Analysis

Values in Emil Filla rest in the mid-range - neither dramatically lit nor steeped in shadow. 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. #152131 claims 46.2% of the surface, functioning as the work's tonal foundation. The saturated accent, #4166A7, registers at 5.4% - sparse enough to feel like a deliberate surprise. The value range of 53 units sits in the comfortable middle: enough depth, enough light, neither extreme. The palette has the character of outdoor light: cool, mid-bright, with colour rendered faithfully rather than expressively. This is palette 4 of Emil Filla's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.