João Batista da Costa Palette 2

Palette Analysis

João Batista da Costa occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. João Batista da Costa builds on cool foundations: the palette favours the blue-cyan-green arc. Saturation is deliberately withheld - the beauty here lies in the near-monochromatic gradations rather than colour difference. At 11.7%, #18210D carries the palette's sharpest chromatic charge: an accent that earns its place precisely because it is withheld. The full value range is 65 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. This is palette 2 of João Batista da Costa's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.