Mikhail Larionov Master Palette

Palette Analysis

Mikhail Larionov occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. The palette achieves thermal balance - reds and blues, ochres and greens, each holding the other in check. Chroma is moderate: colours carry enough saturation to be read as colour, but the palette stops well short of garish intensity. #CF5415 functions as the palette's exclamation mark: highest chroma, lowest percentage (3.5%). A value spread of 61 units gives the palette both depth and air - shadows are genuinely dark, lights genuinely light. The combination of mid-to-high key, balanced temperature, and elevated chroma is characteristic of Impressionist observation: light broken into its component hues. Taken together, these qualities constitute Mikhail Larionov's chromatic voice - distinctive enough to be read across an entire body of work.