Ioannis Altamouras Palette 2

Palette Analysis

Ioannis Altamouras is high in key: pale, luminous, and filled with optical air. Ioannis Altamouras keeps warm and cool in parity, a balance that lends the work a perceptual shimmer. Chroma is kept low across all colours, producing the soft, enveloping quality that characterises tonal painting. The most saturated colour, #C0B4A5, is reserved to 8.7% of the surface, where it acts as a focal punctuation. At 50 units across the value scale, the palette keeps contrast readable without letting it dominate. In the context of Ioannis Altamouras's full range of palettes, group 2 represents one movement in an ongoing chromatic dialogue.