Maria Blanchard Palette 8

Palette Analysis

Mid-key values give Maria Blanchard its characteristic quietness - nothing blazes, nothing disappears. Cool tones set the register here - the blues and greens easily outweigh any warm accents. Chroma is kept low across all colours, producing the soft, enveloping quality that characterises tonal painting. The most saturated colour, #172C26, is reserved to 7.2% of the surface, where it acts as a focal punctuation. 50 units of value spread create a palette that is varied but unified - contrast in the service of harmony. The palette has the character of outdoor light: cool, mid-bright, with colour rendered faithfully rather than expressively. Palette 8 sits within the larger chromatic argument that Maria Blanchard's complete body of work advances.