Joan Miro Master Palette

Palette Analysis

Joan Miro occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. Blues and teal-greys govern the palette, lending it an aquatic or atmospheric quality. Chroma is held at a comfortable level - distinct colours, but no single hue is allowed to overwhelm. The most saturated colour, #4F54E2, is reserved to 1.6% of the surface, where it acts as a focal punctuation. At 61 units of value range, the palette has the tonal breadth to sustain complex spatial readings. The palette has the character of outdoor light: cool, mid-bright, with colour rendered faithfully rather than expressively. These proportions encode Joan Miro's instinctive sense of how much of each quality the eye can hold.