Gustav Pope Palette 2

Palette Analysis

Gustav Pope occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. Gustav Pope builds on cool foundations: the palette favours the blue-cyan-green arc. Every colour is desaturated; the palette proceeds through near-neutrals and gently-coloured greys. The most saturated colour, #9C7450, is reserved to 4.6% of the surface, where it acts as a focal punctuation. The value range of 54 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. In the context of Gustav Pope's full range of palettes, group 2 represents one movement in an ongoing chromatic dialogue.